Polyglycidol and its derivatives have been of great interest during the past years due to its biocompatibility 1,2 and to the fact that hyperbranched polyglycidols 3,4 with a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution are accessible. In particular, the high functionality of linear and hyperbranched polyglycidols makes them interesting for biomedical applications, such as drug carrier systems.Linear polyglycidol can by synthesized via anionic ringopening polymerization of the corresponding protected monomer, 1-ethoxyethyl glycidyl ether (EEGE), followed by deprotection in order to recover the pendant hydroxy groups. 5-10 Various amphiphilic block copolymers based on polyglycidol as the water-soluble component have been synthesized and their aggregation behavior studied in aqueous solutions, e.g., polystyrene-b-polyglycidol, 11 poly(lactic acid)-b-poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polyglycidol, 12,13 and polyglycidol-b-poly(propylene oxide)-b-polyglycidol. 5,14,15 These block copolymers are able to form aggregates, such as micelles, in water at certain concentrations and/or temperatures, making them interesting for future applications in biomedical and other fields. Linear polyglycidol can be functionalized with acetic anhydride or ethyl isocyanate to obtain polymers which have easily adjustable lower critical solution temperatures. 5,7,16 This opens a new application field for polyglycidol derivatives as thermosensitive polymers.Up to now, most of the initiators used for the anionic ringopening polymerization of EEGE are based on potassium or cesium alcoholates. 5,6,8,[17][18][19] However, block copolymers of EEGE and vinyl monomers, like styrene or dienes, cannot be synthesized in a one-pot procedure using commercially available alkyllithium initiators, as polymerization of epoxides does not proceed in the presence of Li + counterions. 20,21 Especially, in diene polymerization (butadiene, isoprene) to obtain a high content of 1,4-addition the use of Li + counterions is indispensable. Thus, in order to promote polymerization of EEGE the counterion has to be changed to K + or Cs + , resulting in additional functionalization and purification steps making the synthesis more time-consuming. It has been shown that ethylene oxide (EO) can be polymerized in the presence of Li + counterions using the phosphazene base t-BuP 4 . 22,23 This has been utilized in our group to synthesize block copolymers of vinyl monomers and EO, e.g., PS-b-PEO, in one step using alkyllithium initiators without the need of changing the counterion to Na + or K + in order to facilitate EO polymerization. [24][25][26] Here, this concept was applied to the anionic ring-opening polymerization of EEGE in the presence of Li + counterions. In particular, we were interested in an extension of PEO-based diblock copolymers by PEEGE in order to produce triblock terpolymers with a PEO middle block. The ability to produce well-defined block copolymers is important in order to gain a deeper understanding of the self-assembly of block copolymers and justifies the us...