One-pot synthesis of semicrystalline/amorphous multiblock copolymers via divinyl-terminated telechelic polyolefins

Nan Hu; Cheng-Kang Mai; Glenn H Fredrickson; Guillermo C Bazan

doi:10.1039/c5cc09200k

One-pot synthesis of semicrystalline/amorphous multiblock copolymers via divinyl-terminated telechelic polyolefins

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Feb 7;52(11):2237-40. doi: 10.1039/c5cc09200k.

Authors

Nan Hu¹, Cheng-Kang Mai¹, Glenn H Fredrickson², Guillermo C Bazan¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. bazan@chem.ucsb.edu.
² Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA. bazan@chem.ucsb.edu.

PMID: 26658299
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09200k

Abstract

A simple, one-pot approach to synthesize random semicrystalline/amorphous multiblock copolymers (12-17 blocks per chain on average) is demonstrated that takes advantage of acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization of α,ω-divinyl-terminated telechelic polyolefins. This synthetic approach offers a generic, viable and economical route to polyolefin-based multiblock copolymers and may be extendable to broader families of multiblock materials.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.