Abstract

The guanidine hybrid ligands, (tetramethylguanidine)methylenepyridine (TMGpy) and (dimethylethyleneguanidine)methylenepyridine (DMEGpy), were proven to be able to stabilize copper complexes active in the solvent-free polymerization of styrene at 110 °C using 1-phenylethylbromide as the initiator. The polymerization proceeded after first-order kinetics, and polystyrenes with polydispersities around 1.2 could be obtained. Using the ligand, DMEGpy, three new copper guanidine-pyridine complexes could be synthesized and structurally characterized. Their structural characteristics are discussed.

Details

Title
New Guanidine-Pyridine Copper Complexes and Their Application in ATRP
Author
Hoffmann, Alexander; Bienemann, Olga; Vieira, Ines dos Santos; Herres-Pawlis, Sonja
Pages
995-1007
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20734360
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
1537129118
Copyright
Copyright MDPI AG 2014