Bioactive Peptide Brush Polymers via Photoinduced Reversible‐Deactivation Radical Polymerization

Mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymers via stable free radical polymerization

Stable free radical polymerization has been used in the controlled synthesis of poly(2,5-bis[(4butylbenzoyl)oxy]styrene), PBBOS. This “mesogen-jacketed liquid crystalline polymer”, which has mesogenic units attached directly to the backbone in a side-on mode, has been found to exhibit thermotropic liquid crystallinity similar to more conventional main-chain architectures. Stable free radical po...

Polymerization of Peptide Polymers for Biomaterial Applications

One-pot synthesis of brush-like polymers via integrated ring-opening metathesis polymerization and polymerization of amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides.

We report here the integration of ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) and ring-opening polymerization of the amino acid N-carboxyanhydride (NCA) to allow facile synthesis of brush-like polymers containing polypeptide as the brush side chains. ROMP of N-trimethylsilyl norbornenes rendered the preparation of poly(norbornene)s bearing pendant N-TMS groups. With no need to purify the resu...

Recent Progress on Hyperbranched Polymers Synthesized via Radical-Based Self-Condensing Vinyl Polymerization

This short review article summarizes recent reports on using controlled radical polymerization (CRP) of inimers (compounds containing initiating group and vinyl group in one molecule) or transmers (compounds containing chain transfer group and vinyl group in one molecule) for the synthesis of hyperbranched polymers. These inimers and transmers that carry numerous functional groups could be homo...

Synthesis and Characterization of Optically Active Helical Vinyl Polymers via Free Radical Polymerization

A facile synthetic route to prepare the dual-functional molecule, 2,5bis(40-carboxyphenyl)styrene, was developed. The esterification of this compound with chiral alcohols, that is, (S)-(þ)-sec-butanol/(R)-( )-sec-butanol, (S)-(þ)-secoctanol/(R)-( )-sec-octanol, and D-(þ)-menthol/L-( )-menthol, respectively, yielded three enantiomeric pairs of novel vinyl monomers, which underwent radical polyme...