Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Elementary Reactions in Living Radical Polymerization via Organic Amine Catalysis

• Main Authors: Goto, Atsushi, Sanada, Shohei, Lei, Lin, Hori, Kenji
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: living radical polymerization; transition state quantum calculation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84596; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41882
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The reaction mechanism of living radical polymerization using organic catalysts, a reversible complexation mediated polymerization (RCMP), was studied using both theoretical calculations and experiments. The studied catalysts are tetramethylguanidine (TMG), triethylamine (TEA), and thiophene. Methyl...