Solvent-Selective Reactions of Alkyl Iodide with Sodium Azide for Radical Generation and Azide Substitution and Their Application to One-Pot Synthesis of Chain-End-Functionalized Polymers

• Main Authors: Wang, Chen-Gang, Goto, Atsushi
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: End-functionalized Polymers; Selective Reactions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87091; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44315
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Herein, a new reaction of an alkyl iodide (R–I) with an azide anion (N3–) to reversibly generate the corresponding alkyl radical (R•) is reported. Via this new reaction, N3– was used as an efficient catalyst in living radical polymerization, yielding a well-defined polymer–iodide. A particularly int...