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AUTHOR
Stefan Bernhardt
Cyclodextrins in Polymer Synthesis: Influence of Acrylate Side Groups on the Initial Rate of Radical Polymerization of Various Acrylate/Methylated β-cyclodextrin Complexes in Water
Methylated β-cyclodextrin was used to complex the hydrophobic monomers n-propyl acrylate (1), n-butyl acrylate (2), n-pentyl acrylate (3), n-hexyl acrylate (4), and cyclohexyl acrylate (5) respectively yielding the corresponding water-soluble host/guest-complexes 1a−5a. The complexes were polymerized in water by free radical mechanism and the initial polymerization rates (v0) determined. We found that v0 increases as follows: 1a (12.5), 2a (27.5), 3a (44.2), 5a (49.4), 4a (75.8 × 10-6 mol·L-1·s-1). To investigate the influence of the hydrophobic character of the guest monomers on the reaction rate, the water solubilities of the uncomplexed monomers 1−5 were determined by HPLC measurements.…
Cyclodextrins in polymer synthesis: Influence of methylated β-cyclodextrin as host on the free radical copolymerization reactivity ratios of hydrophobic acrylates as guest monomers in aqueous medium
Methylated (β-cyclodextrin (me-β-CD) was used to complex the hydrophobic monomers n-butyl acrylate (1), n-hexyl acrylate (2) and cyclohexyl acrylate (3) yielding the corresponding water soluble host/guest complexes 1a–3a. The complexes were copolymerized in water by free radical mechanism and the reactivity ratios were determined by measuring the monomer consumption by HPLC. The following reactivity ratios were found: copolymerization of 1a and 2a: r1= 1.01 ± 0.01; r2= 1.04 ± 0.01; copolymerization of 3a and 2a: r1= 0.74; r2= 1.28; copolymerization of 3a and 1a: r1= 0.75 ± 0.04; r2= 1.13 ± 0.01. In contrast to that, the copolymerization of the uncomplexed monomers 1–3 in organic medium (DMF…