new guanidine-pyridine copper complexes and their application in atrp
;Alexander Hoffmann;Olga Bienemann;Ines dos Santos Vieira;Sonja Herres-Pawlis
Journal of Fluorescence2014Vol. 6pp. 995-1007
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hoffmann2014polymersnew
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.