摘要 |
A novel process for coupling living polymers containing terminal (meth)acrylic units, which enables an increase in molecular weight and/or a defined multi-sequencing and/or a star structure with a defined number of branches, is disclosed. The disclosed process comprises the steps of: (i) anionic polymerization using an initiator system consisting of a bi-functional initiator and a ligand to obtain a living polymer containing living terminal (meth)acrylics units; (ii) reacting it with an aldehyde compound of formula R-(CHO)r in which r>2; and (iii) recovering the final polycondensate by means known per se.
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