TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hartlieb, Matthias
T1  - Photo-iniferter RAFT polymerization
JF  - Macromolecular rapid communications : publishing the newsletters of the European Polymer Federation
N2  - Light-mediated polymerization techniques offer distinct advantages over polymerization reactions fueled by thermal energy, such as high spatial and temporal control as well as the possibility to work under mild reaction conditions. Reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer (RAFT) polymerization is a highly versatile radical polymerization method that can be utilized to control a variety of monomers and produce a vast number of complex macromolecular structures. The use of light to drive a RAFT-polymerization is possible via multiple routes. Besides the use of photo-initiators, or photo-catalysts, the direct activation of the chain transfer agent controlling the RAFT process in a photo-iniferter (PI) process is an elegant way to initiate and control polymerization reactions. Within this review, PI-RAFT polymerization and its advantages over the conventional RAFT process are discussed in detail.
KW  - light
KW  - photo-iniferter reversible addition-fragmentation chain-transfer
KW  - photo-mediated polymerization
KW  - radical polymerization
KW  - reversible
KW  - addition-fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202100514
SN  - 1521-3927
VL  - 43
IS  - 1
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -