Controlled copolymerization of n-butyl acrylate with semifluorinated acrylates by RAFT polymerization

Abstract

A new class of well-controlled semifluorinated copolymers were successfully synthesized via RAFT polymerization. We found that ESI-TOF MS was particularly useful for readily analysing our semifluorinated copolymers. The reactivity ratios of each pair of co-monomers are close to one.