Erratum to: “Controlled/living radical polymerization: Features, developments and perspectives” [Prog. Polym. Sci. 32 (2007) 93–146]

Synthesis of Amphiphilic Tadpole-Shaped Linear-Cyclic Diblock Copolymers via Ring-Opening Polymerization Directly Initiating from Cyclic Precursors and Their Application as Drug Nanocarriers

“…[1][2][3] It has been well-established that the topological structures and chemical composition of nonlinearshaped block copolymers can exhibit dramatic effects on the solution properties and self-assembling morphologies as compared with their linear counterpart. [4][5][6][7][8][9] It is worthy of noting that the developments of a variety of controlled radical polymerization techniques 10 such as atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), [11][12][13] reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization, [14][15][16] and nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) 17,18 have facilitated the synthesis of nonlinear-shaped polymers with varying chain architectures such as cyclic, 8,9,[19][20][21][22][23] (miktoarm) star, [24][25][26] star block copolymers, 27,28 comb, [29][30][31][32] sun-shaped, [33][34][35] H-shaped, [36][37][38] and θ-shaped 39,40 polymers. Among these nonlinear chain topologies, tadpole-shaped linearcyclic diblock copolymers [41]…”

Advances in monolithic porous materials tailored in liquid media: around inorganic oxides and organic polymers

“…In controlled/living radical polymerization (CRP), 51) undesirable chain transfer and termination reactions are highly suppressed by employing a chemical agent (X) which reversibly attaches to the growing end (P•) and stabilizes it as the "domant" (P X) as shown in Fig. 7.…”

“…We have also developed a simple and easy way to prepare homogeneous networks in the alkoxyderived titania system, which can be utilized to the preparation of macroporous titania monoliths (section 3). We also utilized homogeneous networks formed by controlled/living radical polymerization 8) for the development of macroporous crosslinked polymer monoliths, which can also be converted into carbon materials with high specific surface area by carbonization and activation (section 4). Some possible applications for these new porous monoliths are also demonstrated.…”

Quantum chemistry of organocuprates as intermediates of catalytic and photochemical reactions

“…Copper compounds are widely known as catalysts of reactions proceeding with partition of radicals, [1,2] for example, transformations of chloroorganic compounds. [3] Some experimental evidences of formation of adducts between copper complexes and organic radicals were obtained, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] but the information on their structure was very scarce.…”