Synthesis and polymerization of N-trimethylsilylacrylamide: A hydrophobic acrylamide

✍ Scribed by Arnab Dasgupta; Swaminathan Sivaram

• Book ID: 102483525
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 309 KB
• Volume: 195
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1352
• DOI: 10.1002/macp.1994.021951007

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

N‐Trimethylsilylacrylamide (TMSAm), a hydrophobic acrylamide, has been synthesized and characterized. The monomer could be polymerized in benzene by 2,2′‐azoisobutyronitrile or benzoyl peroxide to poly(TMSAm). The silylated polymer was characterized with ^1^H NMR. Poly(TMSAm) is stable in the absence of moisture. It could be quantitatively hydrolyzed to polyacrylamide under mild conditions. The monomer has been copolymerized with styrene in benzene by benzoyl peroxide to yield polymers which on hydrolysis give copolymers of acrylamide and styrene.