Published : 2014-01-30

A controlled radical polymerization route to polyepoxidated grafted hemicellulose materials

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Polyfunctional copolymers were prepared from the major softwood hemicellulose polysaccharide, i.e. O-acetylated galactoglucomannan (AcGGM) through a grafting-from controlled radical polymerization. AcGGM was functionalized with brominated pendant groups that served as initiating species in the subsequent Cu(0) mediated radical polymerization of glycidyl methacrylate (GMA). A linear relationship of ln[GMA]0/[GMA] (the index 0 refers to the initial value) versus reaction time up to conversions of 80 % suggests a first order rate of propagation and a "living” polymerization.


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Edlund, U., & Albertsson, A.-C. (2014). A controlled radical polymerization route to polyepoxidated grafted hemicellulose materials. Polimery, 59(1), 60-65. https://doi.org/10.14314/polimery.2014.060