Stephen Rimmer and Richard England from Sheffield University, in the UK, have investigated the polymerisations of methyl methacrylate, styrene or N-isopropyl acrylamide in the presence of 1-phenyl(trimethylsiloxy)ethylene. It generates telechelic oligomers and chain end functionalized highly branched polymers, where the inclusion of a difunctional monomer also produces highly branched polymers that are free from gel.
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