Facile one-pot synthesis of brush polymers through tandem catalysis using Grubbs' catalyst for both ring-opening metathesis and atom transfer radical polymerizations. Academic Article

abstract

• Using Grubbs' catalyst Cl2(PCy3)2Ru=CHPh for tandem catalysis, poly(methyl methacrylate)-based brush polymers were prepared by one-pot sequential ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) via an inimer having both an alpha-bromoisobutyrate ATRP initiator functionality and an exo-norbornenyl ROMP monomer functionality. The surface morphologies and aggregation behaviors of these nanoscopic single molecules were studied by tapping-mode atomic force microscopy measurements on mica.

authors

• Wooley, Karen

published proceedings

• Nano Lett

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Cheng, C., Khoshdel, E., & Wooley, K. L.

citation count

• 124

complete list of authors

• Cheng, Chong||Khoshdel, Ezat||Wooley, Karen L

publication date

• August 2006

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology  Journal

keywords

• Crystallization
• Free Radicals
• Macromolecular Substances
• Molecular Conformation
• Nanostructures
• Particle Size
• Polymethyl Methacrylate
• Surface Properties

PubMed Central ID

• 16895366

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/nl0611900

start page

• 1741

end page

• 1746

volume

• 6

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl0611900