ESR Study and Radical Observation in Transition Metal-Mediated Polymerization: Unified View of Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Mechanism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Using an on-line electron spin resonance (ESR) technique, we studied the electron paramagnetic species of oxidized metal centers and carbon radicals in three representative catalyst/ligand systems of transition metal-mediated polymerization of methyl methacrylate. These systems were: (1) CuBr/Bpy, (2) RuCl2(PPh3)/Al(OiPr)3, and (3) CuBr/N-pentyl-2-pyridylmethanimine. Ethylene glycol dimethacrylate was used as crosslinker to trigger the diffusion-controlled radical deactivation so that the radical population was accumulated to an ESR detectable level. Methacrylate radicals were observed in all the systems. Their signal hyperfine structures were typical of nine line and were identical to those observed in conventional free radical polymerization processes. There were also peculiar signals observed at low dimethacrylate levels in (2) and (3). These paramagnetic species were present without the monomer addition. The nature of the propagating center type was analyzed. This work provided a unified view for the radical mechanisms of atom transfer radical polymerization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".