Entropy-Driven Supramolecular Ring-Opening Polymerization of a Cyclic Hemoglobin Monomer for Constructing a Hemoglobin–PEG Alternating Polymer with Structural Regularity

A selectivity-driven supramolecular polymerization of an AB monomer.

A Bicyclo[4.2.0]octene-Derived Monomer Provides Completely Linear Alternating Copolymers via Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization (AROMP)

Strained bicyclic carbomethoxy olefins were utilized as substrates in alternating ring-opening metathesis polymerization and found to provide low-dispersity polymers with novel backbones. The polymerization of methyl bicyclo[4.2.0]oct-7-ene-7-carboxylate with cyclohexene in the presence of the fast-initiating Grubbs catalyst (H2IMes)(3-Br-Pyr)2Cl2Ru=CHPh leads to a completely linear as well as ...

Tagging alcohols with cyclic carbonate: a versatile equivalent of (meth)acrylate for ring-opening polymerization.

Cyclic carbonate monomers based on a single biocompatible scaffold allow for incorporation of a wide range of functional groups into macromolecules via ring-opening polymerization.

Investigations into Apopinene as a Biorenewable Monomer for Ring- Opening Metathesis Polymerization

The ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of apopinene is reported. We find that apopinene reacts with Rubased metathesis catalysts to provide an all trans-polymer with a polydispersity index (PDI) as low as 1.6 and molecular weights in the 1100 to 15 600 g·mol−1 range (9−127 monomer units). Because apopinene is readily prepared in one-step from myrtenal or two-steps from α-pinene, both...

Organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization.

Modern synthetic methods have revolutionized polymer chemistry through the development of new and powerful strategies for the controlled synthesis of complex polymer architectures.1-5 Many of these developments were spawned by new classes of transition metal catalysts for the synthesis of new polyolefin microstructures,5 the design of highly efficient families of “living” polymerization strateg...