title: Successive chain-growth condensation polymerization for the synthesis of well-defined diblock copolymers of aromatic polyamide and aromatic polyether.
abstract: Well-defined diblock condensation copolymers composed of an aromatic polyamide and an aromatic polyether have been synthesized by means of successive chain-growth condensation polymerizations. Polymerization of a polyamide monomer with an orthogonally difunctional initiator is accompanied with side reactions. On the other hand, polymerization with a monofunctional initiator afforded well-defined polyamide, which has been converted into a macroinitiator by introduction of a terminal 4-fluorobenzophenone unit. Well-defined diblock copolymers are obtained by polymerization of a polyether monomer in the presence of this macroinitiator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Rokkakubashi, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan.
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yokoyama
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Masukawa
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Tsutomu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokozawa