Copolymerizations of Saccharin Methacrylamide with Dienes toward Softer Alternating Copolymers and Advanced Sequence Control

In this paper, the copolymerization of saccharin methacrylamide ( 1 ) with conjugated dienes [2,3‐dimethyl butadiene (DMBD) and isoprene (IP)] as comonomers toward advanced sequence control is studied. Both monomers are consumed at the same rate in the copolymerization despite the lack of homopolymerization ability of 1 , indicating that the alternating copolymerization likely progresses. The resultant copolymers are transformed into methyl...