The author of 《Ultra-low volume oxygen tolerant photoinduced Cu-RDRP》 were Liarou, Evelina; Anastasaki, Athina; Whitfield, Richard; Iacono, Carmelo E.; Patias, Georgios; Engelis, Nikolaos G.; Marathianos, Arkadios; Jones, Glen R.; Haddleton, David M.. And the article was published in Polymer Chemistry in 2019. Category: copper-catalyst The author mentioned the following in the article:
We introduce the first oxygen tolerant ultra-low volume (as low as 5μL total reaction volume) photoinduced copper-RDRP of a wide range of hydrophobic, hydrophilic and semi-fluorinated monomers including lauryl and hexyl acrylate, poly(ethylene glycol Me ether acrylate) and trifluoroethyl (meth)acrylates. In the absence of any external deoxygenation, well-defined homopolymers can be obtained with low dispersity values, high end-group fidelity and near-quant. conversions. Block copolymers can be efficiently synthesized in a facile manner and the compatibility of the system to larger scale polymerizations (up to 0.5 L) is also demonstrated by judiciously optimizing the reaction conditions. Importantly, the online monitoring of oxygen consumption was also conducted through an oxygen probe and the role of each component is identified and discussed. In the part of experimental materials, we found many familiar compounds, such as Cupric bromide(cas: 7789-45-9Category: copper-catalyst)
Cupric bromide(cas: 7789-45-9) can be used as reducing agent, when complexed by three molecules of pyridine initiators for the controlled polymerization of styrene, methyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate.Category: copper-catalyst
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Copper catalysis in organic synthesis – NCBI,
Special Issue “Fundamentals and Applications of Copper-Based Catalysts”