Electronic Supplementary Material (ESI) for Polymer Chemistry. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020 Electronical Supporting Information Thermo- and oxidation-sensitive poly(meth)acrylates based on alkyl sulfoxides: Dual-responsive homopolymers from one functional group Doğuş Işık,1 Elisa Quaas,2 Daniel Klinger1* 1 Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 2-4, 14195 Berlin, Germany 2 Institute of Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraße 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany *E-mail:
[email protected] Content I. Preparation of sulfoxide (meth)acrylate monomers . S2 II. RAFT polymerization of acrylate monomers . S4 1 III. Determination of polymer molecular weight (Mn,NMR) by H NMR spectroscopy. S5 IV. Preparation of sulfone polymers . S6 V. Assessment of thermo-responsive polymer properties . S9 VI. Control over DP of methacrylate monomers via RAFT polymerization. S10 VII. Thermo-responsive properties of P(nPr-SEMA) and P(iPr-SEMA) free radical homopolymers . S11 VIII. Hysteresis curves for P(nPr-SEMA) and P(iPr-SEMA) . S13 IX. Influence of PBS on the cloud point temperature . S14 X. 1H-NMR investigations on the polymer oxidation reaction . S15 XI. Investigation of partially oxidized copolymer dispersions . S17 XII. Materials and Syntheses . S19 XIII. References . S20 1S I. Preparation of alkyl sulfoxide (meth)acrylate monomers To realize the anticipated sulfoxide polymer library, functional alkyl sulfoxide (meth)acrylate monomers were synthesized via a straight-forward two-step reaction route (Fig. S1). Fig. S1 Successful synthesis of a functional sulfoxide monomer library via a two-step reaction route. The monomers were denoted as follows: 2-(Alkyl-sulfoxide)ethyl methacrylates (Alkyl-SEMA) with methyl (Me), ethyl (Et), isopropyl (iPr), n-propyl (nPr) and, n-butyl (nBu) as alkyl groups and 2-(Alkyl-sulfoxide)ethyl acrylates (Alkyl-SEA) with isopropyl (iPr), n-propyl (nPr), n-butyl (nBu) as alkyl groups, respectively.