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Synfacts 2007(4): 0377-0377  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-968315
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Growing Polymer Brushes on Gold

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Trisha L. Andrew
E. M. Benetti, S. Zapotoczny, G. J. Vancso*
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
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23 March 2007 (online)

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The authors synthesize a new iniferter (a single molecule that acts as an initiator, transfer agent and terminator during a polymerization), 1, and use it to grow poly(acrylamide) polymer brushes immobilized on a gold surface. The disulfide functionality of 1 anchors the iniferter onto the gold surface and the diethyldithiocarba­myl moiety allows one to control polymer chain length during the photopolymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide.