Examining derivatives of quinacridone, diketopyrrolopyrrole and indigo as the visible-light organic photocatalysts for metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization

• Main Authors: Jia, Tao, Huang, Shuo, Bohra, Hassan, Wang, Mingfeng
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering; Dyes; Photocatalyst
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152826
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Conventional atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) involving metal/ligand complexes as the catalysts has been widely used for synthesis of myriads of polymers with controllable molecular weights, monomer sequences and chain end groups, but suffers from the metal-contamination in the final poly...