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Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers using a Fluorescently Labeled N ‐Alkoxyamine Initiator
Author(s) -
Tsimelzon Anna,
Deamer David,
Braslau Rebecca
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.200500608
Subject(s) - copolymer , amphiphile , polymer chemistry , nitroxide mediated radical polymerization , radical polymerization , polystyrene , polymerization , alkyl , fluorescence , acrylic acid , materials science , chemistry , polymer , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Summary: An initiator for nitroxide mediated ‘living’ free radical polymerization was prepared with a fluorescent tag attached to the initiating alkyl radical terminus. This was used to synthesize amphiphilic poly(acrylic acid)‐ block ‐polystyrene diblock copolymers, which self assembled in a tetrahydrofuran/buffer solution to form structures that are visible by fluorescence.