Synthesis and photochemistry of monodisperse oligomeric/polymeric photoinitiators

摘要

Free radical polymerization (FRP) is an important method for the industrial preparation of polymers. Thermal or photochemical decomposition of initiators produces radicals, which can attack monomers and start the growth of polymer chain. In addition to the propagation process, in which the chain extends by one monomer unit, the active chains can lose activity and become dead chains through recombination, disproportionation and chain transfer processes.