Monomode Microwave‐Assisted Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
作者：Huiqi Zhang, Ulrich S. Schubert*
關鍵字：Atom transfer radical polymerization, monomode microwave
論文來源：期刊
具體來源：Macromolecular Rapid Communications 2004, 25(13):1225-1230.
發表時間：2004年
The first monomode microwave-assisted atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is reported. The ATRP of methyl methacrylate was successfully performed with microwave heating, which was well controlled and provided almost the same results as experiments with conventional heating, demonstrating the absence of any "microwave effect" in ATRP (in contrast to several literature reports). Furthermore, we found that the main advantage of the microwave-assisted reactions over conventional reactions, i.e., a significant increase of reaction rates, only had its limited application in ATRP, even in very slow ATRP systems with high targeted molecular weights.