NOVEL HYDROPHILIC-HYDROPHILIC BLOCK-COPOLYMERS BASED ON POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL)

Authors
FORDER C PATRICKIOS CS BILLINGHAM NC ARMES SP
Citation
C. Forder et al., NOVEL HYDROPHILIC-HYDROPHILIC BLOCK-COPOLYMERS BASED ON POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL), Chemical communications, (7), 1996, pp. 883-884
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry
Journal title
Chemical communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
13597345
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
883 - 884
Database
ISI
SICI code
1359-7345(1996):7<883:NHBBOP>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Novel, near-monodisperse poly(methyl vinyl ether-block-vinyl alcohol) copolymers are synthesised using living cationic polymerisation where the vinyl alcohol groups were protected using benzyl groups which were subsequently removed by catalytic hydrogenolysis under mild condition s; the resulting hydrophilic-hydrophilic block copolymers are water-so luble at room temperature and form micelles at temperatures above the cloud-point of the poly(methyl vinyl ether) block (ca. 29 degrees C).