Direct Synthesis of Vinylidene Fluoride-Based Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers by RAFT/MADIX Polymerization

Etienne Girard; Jean-Daniel Marty; Bruno Ameduri; Mathias Destarac

doi:10.1021/mz2001143

Direct Synthesis of Vinylidene Fluoride-Based Amphiphilic Diblock Copolymers by RAFT/MADIX Polymerization

ACS Macro Lett. 2012 Feb 21;1(2):270-274. doi: 10.1021/mz2001143. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Authors

Etienne Girard^{1

2}, Jean-Daniel Marty², Bruno Ameduri³, Mathias Destarac¹

Affiliations

¹ LHFA, UMR 5069, Université de Toulouse, 118, route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France.
² IMRCP, UMR 5623, Université de Toulouse, 118, route de Narbonne F-31062 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France.
³ Institut Charles Gerhardt, Ingénierie et Architectures Macromoléculaires, UMR 5253, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, 8, rue de l'Ecole Normale F-34296 Montpellier, France.

PMID: 35578521
DOI: 10.1021/mz2001143

Abstract

We herein report the synthesis of original vinylidene fluoride (VDF)-based amphiphilic block copolymers by RAFT/MADIX polymerization. The controlled polymerization of VDF could be successfully mediated by a xanthate chain transfer agent as evidenced by size exclusion chromatography (SEC), ¹⁹F NMR, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analysis. Copolymers of VDF and perfluoro(methyl vinyl ether) (PMVE) of varying controlled chain lengths were also obtained. Finally, the direct synthesis of main-chain fluorinated amphiphilic block copolymers was performed from hydrophilic poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) macro-RAFT agents. It is expected that this finding will open interesting perspectives for the development of new class of polymeric surfactants for the stabilization of emulsions based on water and supercritical carbon dioxide media.