Kinetic study on role of ditelluride in organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization (TERP)

Yungwan Kwak; Miho Tezuka; Atsushi Goto; Takeshi Fukuda; Shigeru Yamago

doi:10.1021/ma0623385

Kinetic study on role of ditelluride in organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerization (TERP)

Yungwan Kwak, Miho Tezuka, Atsushi Goto, Takeshi Fukuda^*, Shigeru Yamago

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The role of dimethyl ditelluride (MeTe)₂ for the organotellurium-mediated living radical polymerizations (TERPs) of styrene (St) and methyl methacrylate (MMA) was kinetically studied. For both St and MMA, there was a rapid reversible activation-deactivation process mediated by (MeTe)₂, i.e., P-TeMe + MeTe^̇ ⇄ P ^̇ + (MeTe)₂: (MeTe)₂ worked as an efficient deactivator of the propagating radical P^̇, and the radical MeTe^̇ worked as a highly reactive activator of the dormant species P-TeMe. This rapid reversible process accounted for the dramatic improvement of the polydispersity controllability with the addition of even a small amount of (MeTe)₂ for these polymerizations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1881-1885
Number of pages	5
Journal	Macromolecules
Volume	40
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/ma0623385
Publication status	Published - Mar 20 2007
Externally published	Yes

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Organic Chemistry
Polymers and Plastics
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry

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