Controlled radical polymerization of vinyl acetate mediated by a vanadium complex.
Initiation of the polymerization of vinyl acetate with azobis(isobutyronitrile) in the presence of a vanadium bis(iminopyridine) complex generates vanadium-capped dormant polymer chains with excellent correlation between molecular weight and conversion and good molecular weight distributions.
Shaver
Michael P
MP
Department of Chemistry, University of Prince Edward Island, 550 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE, Canada C1A 4P3. mshaver@upei.ca
Hanhan
M Emre
ME
Jones
Michael R
MR