Design, synthesis, and properties of novel amino-ester and amino-ester-alcohol polymer backbones

Simultaneous polymerization of polyacrylic, polyamine, and polyepoxy monomers offers the potential to generate a novel polymer backbone with new and beneficial properties. The Aza-Michael addition of amines to acrylates is fast and exothermic and can thus increase the rate of amine epoxy reactions producing poly amino-ester-alcohol polymer backbones. The polymerization is shown to be remarkably tolerant of organic and aqueous solvent...