CHAPTER 10: Thiol‐ene Radical Coupling: A Powerful Technique for the Synthesis of Polymer Precursors, Block Copolymers and Graft Copolymers
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Published:13 Aug 2013
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Series: Polymer Chemistry Series
B. Boutevin, R. Auvergne, and G. David, in Thiol‐X Chemistries in Polymer and Materials Science, ed. A. Lowe and C. Bowman, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2013, pp. 217-235.
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This chapter aims to show how reaching functional oligomers and polymers by thiol‐ene radical coupling. According to the vinyl monomers used, different strategies can be adapted in order to reach either monofunctional or telechelic oligomers. For example, combination of thiol‐ene radical coupling onto a functional monomer provides high value oligomers such as silane‐coupling agents for composite materials. This chapter also discusses thiol‐ene radical coupling onto vinyl‐containing polymers, which leads to partial modification of the properties. Finally, we showed how thiol‐ene radical coupling allows for the synthesis of block copolymers such as PMMA‐b‐PDMS‐b‐PMMA.
