Living anionic polymerization of (meth)acrylic esters: New mechanistic concepts and resulting materials

摘要

As an illustration of the frantic development of (meth)acrylic esters anionic polymerization during the last decade, three significant breakthroughs will be presented and analyzed: - extension of the LAP (ligated anionic polymerization) concept to the practical synthesis of both high iso- or syndio high MW PMMA; - the production of "perfect" hydrocarbon gels from tailored PMMA-polybutadiene-PMMA triblock copolymers; - the use of reactivity "boosters" allowing to climb back up the nucleophilic reactivity scale, i.e. initiating styrene, dienes and (meth)acrylates polymerization with alcoholates and silanolates. [References: 7]