Bidirectional propagation of chain‐growth polycondensation: Its application to poly(ethylene glycol)–aromatic polyamide–poly(ethylene glycol) triblock copolymer with low polydispersity

Abstract

Polycondensation of phenyl 4-(octylamino)benzoate (1) in the presence of diphenyl terephthalate (2) as a difunctional initiator proceeded in a bidirectional propagation from 2. This polycondensation was applied to the synthesis of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)–aromatic polyamide–PEG triblock copolymer (4) as a new, well-defined coil-rod-coil triblock copolymer.