Harrisson S, Nicolas J. In the (Very) Long Run We Are All Dead: Activation and Termination in SET-LRP/SARA-ATRP.
ACS Macro Lett 2014;
3:643-647. [PMID:
35590761 DOI:
10.1021/mz500305j]
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Abstract
The rate constants of activation and termination were determined for SET-LRP/SARA-ATRP polymerizations of methyl acrylate. Measurement of the rate of generation of CuBr2 throughout the reaction (using data from Levere et al., Macromolecules 2012, 45, 8267-8274) allowed evaluation of the chain length dependence of the two rate constants, which were found to be 1.25(9) × 10-4DPn-0.51(3) cm·s-1 (activation) and 3.1(1) × 109DPn-0.49(2) L·mol-1·s-1 (termination). Addition of the CuBr2 deactivator at the beginning of the reaction is found to result in a higher proportion of dead chains due to rapid termination of short chains.
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