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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 141, Issue 4, Pages 1446-1451Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b12154
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- Georgia Institute of Technology
- American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund [59312-DNI7]
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A new approach to radical ring-opening polymerization is presented that employs a new thionolactone monomer to generate polymers with thioester-containing backbones. The use of a thiocarbonyl acceptor overcomes longstanding reactivity problems in the field to give complete ring-opening and quantitative incorporation into a variety of acrylate polymers. The resulting copolymers readily degrade under hydrolytic conditions, in addition to cysteine-mediated degradation through transthioesterification. The strategy is compatible with reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization and permits the synthesis of block polymers for the preparation of well-defined macromolecular structures.
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