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Polyethylene end functionalization using thia-Michael addition chemistry

Jérôme Mazzolini 1 Olivier Boyron 1 Vincent Monteil 1 Franck D’agosto 1 Christophe Boisson 1 Gemma C. Sanders Johan P. A. Heuts Rob Duchateau Didier Gigmes 2 Denis Bertin 2
1 C2P2 - Laboratoire de Chimie, Catalyse, Polymères et Procédés, R 5265
2 ICR - Institut de Chimie Radicalaire
Abstract : Thiol end functionalized polyethylenes (PE-SH, Mn around 1000 g mol−1, Đ \textless 1.3) were used as nucleophiles in thia-Michael additions with different acrylic molecules. It was found that under commonly used practical conditions the addition to methacrylates was very difficult, whereas addition to acrylates was very efficient. First, block copolymers based on PE and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) were targeted by reaction of PE-SH with PMMA obtained by catalytic chain transfer polymerization (CCTP). The reaction however failed and detailed model experiments using butanethiol and a dimer of MMA showed that the solubilization temperature of PE-SH was an impediment to the success of the reaction. The lack of reactivity towards PMMA obtained by CCTP and methacrylate functions was advantageously used to react molecules containing both an acrylate and a methacrylate group in the presence of tributyl phosphine (PBu3) to produce methacrylate-type PE macromonomers. The presence of a hydroxyl function on 3-(acryloyloxy)-2-hydroxypropyl methacrylate induced side trans-esterification reactions catalyzed by PBu3. This was overcome by using the hydroxyl free 2-(acryloyloxy) ethyl methacrylate. With the latter, the desired PE macromonomer exhibited a functionality as high as 85%. Alternatively, 2-isocyanatoethyl methacrylate could also be reacted with PE-SH to produce a highly functionalized methacrylate type PE macromonomer (functionality 89%). Eventually, the efficiency of the thia-Michael addition of PE-SH onto poly(ethylene glycol) acrylate (PEG-acrylate) was used to synthesize the PE-b-PEG block copolymer.
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Jérôme Mazzolini, Olivier Boyron, Vincent Monteil, Franck D’agosto, Christophe Boisson, et al.. Polyethylene end functionalization using thia-Michael addition chemistry. Polymer Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry - RSC, 2012, 3 (9), pp.2383--2392. ⟨10.1039/C2PY20199B⟩. ⟨hal-01460415⟩

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