A General Approach to Sequence-Controlled Polymers Using Macrocyclic Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization

A new and general strategy for the synthesis of sequence-defined polymers is described that employs relay metathesis to promote the ring opening polymerization of unstrained macrocyclic structures. Central to this approach is the development of a small molecule “polymerization trigger” which when coupled with a diverse range of sequence-defined units allows for the controlled, directional synthesis of sequence controlled polymers.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Journal of the American Chemical Society

• Publication date

  2015-06-08

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

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  DOI 10.1021/jacs.5b04940PMID 26053158PMCID 4490773
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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