The commercially relevant synthesis of novel materials with step-growth backbones has been achieved by applying conventional chemistries to the radical telomerisation of divinyl monomers leading to high molecular weight branched polymers.

Complex macromolecular architectures offer innovation opportunities through the formation of new polymers with novel physical and chemical behaviour. Optimally existing commercial feedstocks are used as the introduction of new small...

The characterisation and quantification of branching is key to understanding new complex macromolecules. Here we establish approaches to evaluate the unique and novel architectures formed by Transfer-dominated Branching Radical Telomerisation (TBRT).