Visible light mediated fast iterative raft synthesis of amino-based reactive copolymers in water at 20 °c

Abstract

The attempts to mediate iterative RAFT polymerization of ionic monomers through visible light irradiation in water at 20 °C is reported, in which complete conversions are attained in several tens of minutes and the propagation suspends/ restarts immediately for multiple times on cycling irradiation. This technique suits the one-pot synthesis of NH 2 /imidazole- based polymers with tuned structures from homo to random, block, random-block, and block-random-block, thus is robust and promising to control the sequence of the ionized water-soluble reactive copolymers. © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.