Recent content by Caleb Breaux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom-transfer_radical-polymerization The reaction mechanism is basically the picture you see at the top of the wikipedia page for ATRP, I'm even using CuCl. In the top reaction you have your initiator (R-Cl) whose bond is cleaved and radical stabilized by the...

Hi everyone, So I'm a chemical engineering grad student and oddly enough I have been tasked with doing chemistry (strange I know). I'm currently doing atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) using a metal (CuCl or CuBr) and a ligand (dNbpy or PDMETA). My monomer is a methacrylate group...