Water-soluble SG1-based alkoxyamines: A breakthrough in controlled/living free-radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed media

This feature article describes the application of nitroxide-mediated controlled/living free-radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed systems such as miniemulsion and emulsion polymerizations. It mainly focuses on the acyclic nitroxide SG1 with derived alkoxyamines and aims to show how the recent development of new water-soluble species has allowed a true emulsion polymerization process to be successfully implemented and block copolymers to be created directly in latex particles.