Thermo-regulated phase separable catalysis (TPSC)-based atom transfer radical polymerization in a thermo-regulated ionic liquid

Xiangyang Du; Jinlong Pan; Mengting Chen; Lifen Zhang; Zhenping Cheng; Xiulin Zhu

doi:10.1039/c4cc03918a

Thermo-regulated phase separable catalysis (TPSC)-based atom transfer radical polymerization in a thermo-regulated ionic liquid

Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Aug 25;50(66):9266-9. doi: 10.1039/c4cc03918a.

Authors

Xiangyang Du¹, Jinlong Pan, Mengting Chen, Lifen Zhang, Zhenping Cheng, Xiulin Zhu

Affiliation

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. chengzhenping@suda.edu.cn xlzhu@suda.edu.cn.

PMID: 25000473
DOI: 10.1039/c4cc03918a

Abstract

A thermo-regulated phase separable catalysis (TPSC) system for AGET ATRP based on a thermo-regulated ionic liquid was developed for the first time. The corresponding transition metal catalysts could be easily recovered and reused several times with negligible loss of catalytic activity.