Computer-aided design of a destabilized RAFT adduct radical: Toward improved RAFT agents for styrene- block -vinyl acetate copolymers

Abstract

High-level ab initio molecular orbital calculations indicate that a fluorine Z substituent significantly destabilizes the RAFT adduct radical, R'SO·(Z)SR, relative to known Z substituents. This destabilization of the RAFT adduct radical lowers the fragme Show more