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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 7-31Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2py01291j
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- European Union under the European Regional Development Fund [MAB PLUS/2019/11]
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This review article provides a comprehensive overview of the synthesis methods, post-polymerization modifications, and biological applications of diverse disulfide-containing polymers obtained by polymerization of disulfide-containing monomers, highlighting the significance of disulfide bonds in polymer science.
Due to the significance of disulfide bonds within modern material and medicinal sciences, much attention has been paid to the synthesis of disulfide-containing polymers. Within this review article, we attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the diversity of disulfide-containing polymers that can be obtained by the chain-growth polymerization of disulfide-containing monomers. This article covers the synthesis of polymers by free radical polymerization (FRP), i.e., vinyl monomers having side-chains incorporating disulfide bonds, and also the polymerization of disulfide containing heterocyclic monomers by ring-opening polymerization (ROP/rROP/ROMP). In addition, polymerization where disulfide-containing heterocycles undergo a ring-opening process that directly involves the disulfide bond are discussed. The article summarizes the state-of-the-art in polymer synthesis, and also outlines various post-polymerization modifications and biological application studies that demonstrate the importance of disulfide containing macromolecules in polymer science.
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