| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
A new stereospecific radical polymerization reaction has been developed. While the conventional methods use on the penultimate effect, the current method relies on the auxiliary control at the propagating polymer-chain end. Lewis acid (MgBr2)-catalyzed radical polymerization of acrylimides bearing chiral oxazolidinones gave highly isotactic polyacrylimides with up to >99% meso tetrad (mmm) selectivity. Polymerization in the absence of Lewis acid gave atactic polymers with 80% racemo diad (r) selectivity; the selectivity was deliberately tuned from 80% r to >99% mmm by varying the polymerization conditions. The polyacrylimide was quantitatively converted to corresponding polyacrylates while preserving the stereoregularity, thus providing a general method for the synthesis of atactic to isotactic polyacrylates.
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