Grafting of thio glucose onto styrene and pentafluorostyrene containing polymers prepared via nitroxide mediated polymerization

The prepn. of homo- and copolymers of styrene and pentafluorostyrene was performed via nitroxide-mediated polymn. Well defined polymers were obtained with narrow polydispersity indexes. The polymers were subsequently used for the substitution reaction of acetylated thio glucose to the homopolymer of pentafluorostyrene. The rate of the substitution reaction was followed by 19F-NMR and quant. conversion was obtained in 1 h at room temp. Finally, the deprotection of the thio glucose was performed under mild reaction conditions to yield fluorinated glycopolymers with narrow polydispersity indexes. [on SciFinder (R)]