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A New Acyclic α-Hydrogen Bearing Nitroxide and its Corresponding Alkoxyamine for Stable Free Radical Polymerization

✍ Scribed by Silke Flakus; Kerstin Mandel; Martina Bartsch; Gudrun Schmidt-Naake


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
123 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Summary: The synthesis of the new α‐hydrogen bearing nitroxide, 2,2,5‐trimethyl‐4‐(isopropyl)‐3‐azahexane‐3‐oxyl (BIPNO) (4), and its corresponding alkoxyamine, Ntert‐butyl‐N‐(1‐isopropyl‐2‐methyl‐propyl)‐O‐(1‐phenyl‐ethyl)‐hydroxylamine (PhEt‐BIPNO) (7), are described in this paper. Reaction of styrene with the new nitroxide in the presence of a Jacobsen‐like manganese catalyst, Mn(salen)Cl, at ambient atmosphere afforded the alkoxyamine in 96% yield. Styrene and n‐butyl acrylate were polymerized in bulk in the presence of the new alkoxyamine. The alkoxyamine turned out to be a suitable “initiator” for controlled radical polymerization.

Structure of α‐hydrogen bearing nitroxide and its corresponding alkoxyamine.

magnified imageStructure of α‐hydrogen bearing nitroxide and its corresponding alkoxyamine.