Synthesis and radical polymerization of acrylate and methacrylate bearing an isocyanurate core with adamantyl bisurethane moieties

Abstract In this article, we report the synthesis of acrylate and methacrylate bearing an isocyanurate core with two adamantyl urethane moieties and their radical homo‐ and copolymerization with n ‐butyl methacrylate (BMA). The synthesized polyacrylate exhibits higher 5% weight loss and glass transition temperatures ( T d5 and T g ) than those of the comparative polyacrylate, synthesized from the isocyanurate‐based acrylate with two hexyl urethane moieties, suggesting that the rigid adamantane core incorporated in the side chains of polymer largely contributes to increase in thermal stability of polymer. Similarly, the obtained copolymers show higher T g values than that of homopolymer derived from BMA, leading to the synthesized monomers are useful as a comonomer to enhance thermal property of polymer.