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Rapid and quantitative one-pot synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers by radical polymerization

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  • Guillaume Gody

    (Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
    Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

  • Thomas Maschmeyer

    (Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

  • Per B. Zetterlund

    (Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD), School of Chemical Engineering, The University of New South Wales)

  • Sébastien Perrier

    (Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

Abstract

A long-standing challenge in polymer chemistry has been to prepare synthetic polymers with not only well-defined molecular weight, but also precisely controlled microstructure in terms of the distribution of monomeric units along the chain. Here we describe a simple and scalable method that enables the synthesis of sequence-controlled multiblock copolymers with precisely defined high-order structures, covering a wide range of functional groups. We develop a one-pot, multistep sequential polymerization process with yields >99%, giving access to a wide range of such multifunctional multiblock copolymers. To illustrate the enormous potential of this approach, we describe the synthesis of a dodecablock copolymer, a functional hexablock copolymer and an icosablock (20 blocks) copolymer, which represents the largest number of blocks seen to date, all of very narrow molecular weight distribution for such complex structures. We believe this approach paves the way to the design and synthesis of a new generation of synthetic polymers.

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  • Guillaume Gody & Thomas Maschmeyer & Per B. Zetterlund & Sébastien Perrier, 2013. "Rapid and quantitative one-pot synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers by radical polymerization," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 4(1), pages 1-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:4:y:2013:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms3505
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3505
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    1. Xiaochao Xia & Ryota Suzuki & Tianle Gao & Takuya Isono & Toshifumi Satoh, 2022. "One-step synthesis of sequence-controlled multiblock polymers with up to 11 segments from monomer mixture," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-11, December.

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