TY  - JOUR
AB  - This study reports the discovery that trithiocarbonate RAFT agents can significantly reduce the amount of dissolved oxygen when irradiated with visible light (?max ? 460 nm) in the presence of a sacrificial tertiary amine. By taking advantage of this effect, we conducted a series of photo-CRPs of acrylates without the requirement of pre-degassing the reaction mixtures. In these systems, the trithiocarbonate plays a triple role of photocatalyst for oxygen removal, initiator, and RAFT agent for polymerization control. We believe this robust and facile synthetic method will be beneficial for cost-effective industrial applications as well as the laboratory-scale synthesis of functional polymeric materials.
AU  - Fu, Q
AU  - Xie, K
AU  - McKenzie, TG
AU  - Qiao, GG
DA  - 2017/03/07
DO  - 10.1039/c6py01994c
EP  - 1526
JO  - Polymer Chemistry
PB  - Royal Society of Chemistry
PY  - 2017/03/07
SP  - 1519
TI  - Trithiocarbonates as intrinsic photoredox catalysts and RAFT agents for oxygen tolerant controlled radical polymerization
VL  - 8
Y1  - 2017/03/07
Y2  - 2026/05/10
ER  -