Guanidine as inexpensive dual function ligand and reducing agent for ATRP of methacrylates

Abstract

<italic>N</italic>,<italic>N</italic>,<italic>N</italic>′,<italic>N</italic>′-Tetramethyl guanidine, an inexpensive and commercially available organic base, is used for the first time as ligand without any chemical modification for the supplemental activator and reducing agent atom transfer radical polymerization.