In-situ Chemiluminescence-Driven Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer Photopolymerization.

Nethmi De Alwis WatuthanthrigeMichael L AllegrezzaMadison T DolanAlex J KlosterMarina KovaliovSaadyah AverickDominik Konkolewicz

Published in: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) (2019)

The power of chemical light generation (chemiluminescence) is used to drive polymerization reactions. A biphasic reaction is developed such that light-generating reactions are confined to the organic phase and photopolymerization occurs in the aqueous phase. Well-defined RAFT-capped polymers are synthesized and the kinetics are shown to be dictated by light generation.

Keyphrases

sensitive detection
energy transfer
ionic liquid
mass spectrometry
quantum dots