Carnegie Mellon University

Linear Hybrid Copolymers

Hybrid segmented copolymers have been prepared by incorporation of inorganic oligomers/polymeric initiators or macromonomers into the ATRP of styrenic and (meth)acrylate monomers.  Block and graft copolymers containing poly(dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) segments have been synthesized by sequential living anionic ring-opening of D3 and quenching the living PDMS chain with a compound comprising either vinyl, or alkyl halide groups and subsequent use of the functionalized PDMS as a macromonomer, (A) or macroinitiator, (B) in an ATRP.(1-4) Polysiloxane block copolymers find use in topical cosmetic and personal care compositions(5) in addition to expected elastomer applications.

9b scheme 1

In a similar approach, methacrylate monomers possessing bulky polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) side groups have been used in ATRP systems to prepare well-defined random and block copolymers.(6,7)

9b scheme 2

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