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Determination of Addition and Fragmentation Rate Coefficients in RAFT Polymerization via Time-Resolved ESR Spectroscopy after Laser Pulse Initiation

✍ Scribed by Michael Buback; Pascal Hesse; Thomas Junkers; Philipp Vana


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
206 KB
Volume
27
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Summary: A method for simultaneous determination of both the addition and fragmentation rate coefficients of the RAFT equilibrium reactions is presented, which is based on laser single pulse initiation in conjunction with microsecond time‐resolved ESR spectroscopy. The build‐up and subsequent decay in concentration of the intermediate radical are measured and k~ad~ and k~β~ values are deduced from fitting the concentration versus time profiles to simple kinetic models.

Normalized ESR signal intensity vs. time after firing an initiating laser pulse in BMPT‐mediated butyl acrylate polymerization.

imageNormalized ESR signal intensity vs. time after firing an initiating laser pulse in BMPT‐mediated butyl acrylate polymerization.