Metal-free anionic polymerization is an important branch of controlled/living anionic polymerization
which has the excellent characterization to initiate alkyl (meth) acrylates monomers at wide temperature range ( - 20~70℃) with narrow molecular weight distribution in a controlled/living manner. This method provides an effective method to design and synthesize homopolymer
block copolymer
graft copolymer and functional polymer of alkyl (meth) acrylates. This paper reviews the pass and recent developments in metal-free anionic polymerization of alkyl (meth) acrylates using different initiators