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Macromonomers and coordination polymerization
Author(s) -
Lahitte JeanFrançois,
Peruch Frédéric,
Isel François,
Lutz Pierre Joseph
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.200450923
Subject(s) - macromonomer , copolymer , polymer chemistry , polystyrene , polymerization , materials science , polymer , catalysis , polymer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material
The present work discusses the synthesis of well‐defined comb‐shaped polymers or graft copolymer structures based on coordination (co)polymerization of macromonomers. Polystyrene macromonomers with various polymerizable entities were synthesized first by induced deactivation reactions. The homopolymerization of these macromonomers in the presence of selected early or late transition metal catalysts was examined. Comb‐shaped polymers could be obtained over a large range of DP values. The results were compared to those obtained by anionic homopolymerization. Some results on the copolymerization of these PS macromonomers with ethylene in the presence of VERSIPOL TM type catalysts were presented.