Use of alcohols as reducing agents for synthesis of well-defined polymers by AGET-ATRP

Yanxue Wang; Xinle Li; Fanfan Du; Hansen Yu; Bangkun Jin; Ruke Bai

doi:10.1039/c2cc17525h

Use of alcohols as reducing agents for synthesis of well-defined polymers by AGET-ATRP

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Mar 14;48(22):2800-2. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17525h. Epub 2012 Feb 2.

Authors

Yanxue Wang¹, Xinle Li, Fanfan Du, Hansen Yu, Bangkun Jin, Ruke Bai

Affiliation

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, PR China 230026.

PMID: 22297790
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17525h

Abstract

Alcohols have been demonstrated to be efficient reducing agents for AGET-ATRP for the first time. Well-controlled polymerizations have been successfully achieved with the typical characteristics of "living"/controlled radical polymerization.