Abstract
The brominated backbone of poly(oxanorbornene imide) (PONB) (PONB-Br) was functionalized with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl (TEMPO)-acrylate, -epoxy, and poly (ethylene glycol) (PEG) yielding PONB-acrylate, PONB-epoxy, and PONB-PEG through the nitroxide radical coupling (NRC) reaction. Although an excess amount of functional-TEMPOs were used. The observed NRC efficiencies were found in the range of 7-25%. Notably, 1H NMR spectra of all polymers exhibited a signal at 6.08 ppm after NRC reactions indicating rebuilding of the main chain double bond and further identified by 13C NMR analysis. The inevitable formation of double bond through the tendency of the recombination of the formed radicals was supported by a separate experiment conducted without utilizing functional-TEMPO. Besides, the versatility of the ROMP backbone further demonstrated by the introduction hetero functionality onto the polymer by a consecutive reactions.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2381-2389 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry |
Volume | 53 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Oct 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2015, 53, 2381-2389.
Keywords
- 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl (TEMPO)
- bromination
- Controlled/living polymerization (CLP)
- IR spectroscopy
- nitroxide radical coupling (NRC)
- poly (oxanorbornene imide) (PONB)
- post-functionalization
- ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and NMR
- UV spectroscopy