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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 50, Issue 21, Pages 8554-8561Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b01592
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21525417, 21490571]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2013CB834702]
- National Program for Support of Top Notch Young Professionals
- Innovation and Technology Commission of Hong Kong [ITC-CNERC14S01]
- Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program [201101C0105067115]
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Water is an abundant, natural, and sustainable resource. However, it has not been used as a monomer for the construction of polymers. In this paper, we take this challenge and develop a new polymerization of water and triple-bond based monomers of isocyanides and bromoalkynes, and polyamides with high molecular weights (up to 41 700) and stereoregularities (the fraction of Z-isomer generally higher than 80%) are obtained in excellent yields (up to 98.1%) under mild reaction conditions. The polymers possess good solubility and exhibit high thermal stability and refractive index. The tetraphenylethene-containing polymers show the unique aggregation-enhanced emission (AEE) characteristics. Moreover, thanks to their containing bromoacrylamide groups in the main chains, these polyamides could be easily easily postmodified through different reactions, providing a convenient platform for polymer functionalization. Thus, this work not only established a stereoselective polymerization of water and triple-bond based monomers but also provided a powerful strategy for the preparation of functional polyamides under mild reaction conditions.
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