Tailor-Made Copolymers via Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer the Fast Way

Abstract

The utilization of automated parallel synthesis robots for the preparation of libraries of poly(methyl methacrylate-N,N'-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) [pMMA-DMAEMA] statistical and block copolymers via the RAFT polymerization process is described in this chapter. The synthesized pMMA-stat-DMAEMA and pMMA-b-DMAEMA copolymers were characterized utilizing both gel permeation chromatography and 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Both the resulting polymer compositions and the control over the RAFT copolymerizations in the parallel synthesis robots are discussed on the basis of these characterization data.