A low volume shrinking vinylcyclopropane (VCP) monomer, showing both a high reactivity and a low viscosity, was obtained by applying a sterically hindered and isomeric spacer element, incorporating intermolecular amide hydrogen bonds. The resulting properties locate this VCP system in a pronounced range that so far no other efficient and radical polymerizable resin could enter.

A facile patterning method for the functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes is described. Modification of the surface of nanotube forests with hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or polymerizable small molecules was achieved via UV-triggered attachment of perfluoroarylazides. Multiple functionalizations of the tube surface can be achieved. Macro- and micropatterning of forest substrates w...

The salts of trialkoxybenzoic acids and 2-amino alcohols showed a columnar liquid crystalline phase; in the case of the salt of a polymerizable acid and norephedrine, the photopolymerization proceeded efficiently in the liquid crystalline state, and the resultant solid adsorbed 2-amino alcohols size, regio-, and enantio-selectively.

Front Cover: In article number 2100221 by Qingqing Wu, Mingsen Deng, and co-workers, one-component polymerizable photoinitiator N-benzyl-N-(9-oxo-9H-thioxanthen-2-yl)acrylamide (TXNBA) with high efficiency excellent migration stability is investigated. The photolysis of TXNBA produces five-number cyclic radical confirmed density functional theory calculations. photoinitiator's ratio system to 2...

Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) represent an emergent class of green designer that find numerous applications in different aspects chemical synthesis. A particularly appealing aspect DES systems is their simplicity preparation, combined with inexpensive, readily available starting materials to yield properties (negligible volatility, non-flammability and high solvation capacity). In the context p...

A Blatter radical-containing polymer backbone is synthesized via copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) and consecutive ring-opening metathesis polymerization. For this, an alkyne-functionalized radical used for the described CuAAC, yielding a polymerizable derivative of radical. The resulting electrochemically investigated in cyclic voltammetry experiments, paving way possible uti...