Template polymerization of methacrylic acid in the presence of poly(ethylene glycol) and poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) in benzene

✍ Scribed by V.Yu. Baranovsky; I.V. Kotlyarsky; V.S. Etlis; V.A. Kabanov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 501 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0014-3057
• DOI: 10.1016/0014-3057(92)90287-c

✦ Synopsis

Heterogeneous radical polymerization of methacrylic acid (MAA) in benzene in the presence of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) was studied. The products of the polymerization are the interpolymer complexes of poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) with PEG and PVP. In spite of the daughter polymer PMAA being insoluble in the reaction medium, the polymerization proceeds via a template mechanism which is generally similar to the template polymerization of MAA in the presence of the same templates under homogeneous conditions. In a heterogeneous polymerization, competition between the two templates is possible: the PMAA macroradical with high selectivity chooses the much stronger template PVP.