Facile synthesis of advanced gradient polymers with sequence control using furan-protected maleimide as a comonomer

Abstract

Diverse advanced gradient polymers, including simultaneous, hierarchical, di-blocky, symmetrical, and tri-blocky gradient polymers, were facilely fabricated by applying furan protected maleimide as a co-monomer.

Discrete and Stereospecific Oligomers Prepared by Sequential and Alternating Single Unit Monomer Insertion

“…12 Most importantly, such polymers have the potential to open new opportunities for the development of advanced materials for data storage, [13][14][15][16] catalysis [17][18] and drug delivery. [19][20][21] Various strategies have been proposed for regulating monomer sequence and chain length of synthetic polymers, including condensation chain polymerization, 22 alternating radical polymerization, [23][24][25][26][27][28][29] anionic polymerization, [30][31] ring-opening or cross metathesis polymerization, [32][33][34] atom transfer radical addition (ATRA), [24][25][35][36][37] iterative exponential growth, [38][39][40][41][42][43] single unit monomer insertion 12,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50] and various organic coupling, condensation or "click" addition reactions. 19,[51][52]...…”

One-pot synthesis for gradient copolymers via concurrent tandem living radical polymerization: mild and selective transesterification of methyl acrylate through Al(acac)3 with common alcohols

“…However, the function of cumulative (F cum ) contents and instantaneous (F inst ) contents were good tools for the explaining the composition of gradient sequences in polymer chains. 22,27 To evaluate the well-controlled gradient sequence in the polymer chain, the F cum in isolated polymer chains was calculated using 1 H NMR (Fig. 3 (right) and Fig.…”

Asymmetric Copolymers: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Gradient and Other Partially Segregated Copolymers

“…Very recently, Zhang and co‐workers reported the preparation of simultaneous, hierarchical, diblock, symmetrical, and triblock gradient copolymers by copolymerizing methyl methacrylate (MMA) and furan‐protected propyl maleimide (FPMI) via RAFT polymerization . In contrast to studies of Sawamoto et al.…”