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Poly(methyl vinyl ether‐ b ‐octadecyl vinyl ether): a new non‐ionic surfactant
Author(s) -
Lievens Serge S.,
Goethals Eric J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
polymer international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.592
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1097-0126
pISSN - 0959-8103
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0126(199612)41:4<437::aid-pi634>3.0.co;2-5
Subject(s) - living cationic polymerization , vinyl ether , cationic polymerization , polymer chemistry , copolymer , polymerization , ether , materials science , living polymerization , polymer , anionic addition polymerization , chemistry , radical polymerization , organic chemistry
Block copolymers consisting of methyl vinyl ether (MeVE) units and octadecyl vinyl ether (ODVE) units were synthesized using the cationic living polymerization technique. The polymerization of MeVE was initiated with the trimethyl silyl iodide/1,1‐diethoxyethane/ZnI 2 system at −40°C in toluene and the living polymer thus obtained was used as initiator for the polymerization of ODVE at 07deg;C. The combination of hydrophilic (PMeVE) and hydrophobic (PODVE) segments provides the block copolymers with non‐ionic surfactant properties, which have been evaluated by measurement of the stabilities of water–decane emulsions.