Controlled monomer insertion into polymer main chain: synthesis of sequence ordered polystyrene containing thiourethane and trithiocarbonate units by the RAFT process

Suguru Motokucho; Atsushi Sudo; Fumio Sanda; Takeshi Endo

doi:10.1039/b205523f

Controlled monomer insertion into polymer main chain: synthesis of sequence ordered polystyrene containing thiourethane and trithiocarbonate units by the RAFT process

Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Sep 7:(17):1946-7. doi: 10.1039/b205523f.

Authors

Suguru Motokucho¹, Atsushi Sudo, Fumio Sanda, Takeshi Endo

Affiliation

¹ Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.

PMID: 12271687
DOI: 10.1039/b205523f

Abstract

A polymer having a trithiocarbonate moiety in the main chain was applied as a polymeric precursor to the synthesis of a sequence ordered polymer by insertion polymerization of styrene into the main chain by a RAFT mechanism.