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Synthesis of Well-Defined Rod-Coil-Rod Polyhexylisocyanate-block-polystyrene-block-polyhexylisocyanate via One-Pot Anionic Polymerization

✍ Scribed by Jun-Hwan Ahn; Jae-Suk Lee


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
142 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

A rod‐coil‐rod block copolymer, polyhexylisocyanate‐block‐polystyrene‐block‐polyhexylisocyanate, of controlled molecular weight was synthesized quantitatively via living anionic polymerization using potassium naphthalenide in the presence of sodium tetraphenylborate. The use of K^+^ as the counterion for the polymerization of styrene, and Na^+^ (NaBPh~4~) for the polymerization of isocyanate leads to the formation of a well‐controlled novel triblock copolymer.
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