Diethyl methylene malonate (Chemi-lian M1000, DEMM) and Forza B3100 (DEMM)
6 were provided by Sirrus Inc. (Loveland, OH).
Methyl methacrylate (MMA, Fisher),
butyl acrylate (BA, Acros Organics), and
methacrylate acid (MAA, Sigma-Aldrich) were used as monomers for latex synthesis. 2,2′-Azobis[2-(2-imidazolin-2-yl) propane] dihydrochloride (AIBI, TCI) was used as an initiator, and
Triton X-405 (Sigma-Aldrich) was used as a surfactant.
Acrylic acid (AA, Sigma-Aldrich),
catechol (Acros Organics), 2-vinylbenzoic acid (VBA, Fisher), and
benzeneboronic acid (BBA, Alfa Aesar) were used to prepare initiators for DEMM polymerization.
Aluminum oxide (Sigma-Aldrich) was used to remove the inhibitor from monomers.
N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF, Fisher) was used as an extractor.
Deuterium oxide (D
2O, 99.8% atom D), chloroform-
d (CDCl3, 99.8% atom D), and methyl sulfoxide-
d6 (DMSO-
d6, 99.5+% atom D) were obtained from Acros Organics. Doubly deionized (DDI) water was used throughout the work.
Huang M., Liu Y., Yang G., Klier J, & Schiffman J.D. (2019). Anionic Polymerization of Methylene Malonate for High-Performance Coatings. ACS applied polymer materials, 1(4), 657-663.