title: Defined Poly[styrene-block-(ferrocenylmethyl methacrylate)] Diblock Copolymers via Living Anionic Polymerization.
abstract: Ferrocenylmethyl methacrylate (FMMA) is one of the very few metallocene-based monomers that are promising candidates for truly living anionic polymerization. Nevertheless, FMMA homopolymers with a narrow polydispersity, or block copolymerization studies that result in satisfying blocking efficiencies, are unknown so far. Here we describe a procedure that leads to highly regular FMMA-based polymers for the first time, characterized by polydispersity indices (PDI) of less that 1.05 and very high blocking efficiencies (>95%) in sequential copolymerization with styrene. Some of the obtained poly[styrene-block-(ferrocenylmethyl methacrylate)]s show unusual microphase morphologies, presumably the consequence of high T(g) s causing 'frustrated' non-equilibrium states.
authors.affiliation: Ernst-Berl-Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gallei
authors.forename: Bernhard V K J
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rehahn