Anastasaki, Athina, Nikolaou, Vasiliki and Haddleton, David M. (2016) Cu(0)-mediated living radical polymerization: recent highlights and applications; a perspective. Polymer Chemistry, 7 (5). pp. 1002-1026. doi:10.1039/c5py01916h

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Abstract

Cu(0)-mediated living radical polymerization or single electron transfer living radical polymerization (Cu(0)-mediated LRP or SET-LRP) is a versatile polymerization technique that has attracted considerable interest during the past few years for the facile preparation of advanced materials. Importantly, the scope of Cu(0)-mediated LRP has been significantly expanded to include the polymerization of a large variety of functional monomers (e.g. acrylates, methacrylates, acrylamides, methacrylamides, styrene etc.) in several solvents e.g. with the resulting polymers possessing narrow molecular weight distributions (MWDs), fast polymerization rates and very high end-group fidelity (even at quantitative conversions) as exemplified by sequential chain extensions and block copolymerizations. These characteristics render Cu(0)-mediated LRP an ideal candidate for the facile synthesis of complex architectures that have found use in a large diversity of applications including glycopolymers, gene delivery, foldamers, polymer–protein conjugates and many others.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Chemistry
Journal or Publication Title:	Polymer Chemistry
Publisher:	Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN:	1759-9954
Official Date:	7 February 2016
Dates:	Date Event 7 February 2016 Published 4 January 2016 Available 28 December 2015 Accepted 2 December 2015 Submitted
Volume:	7
Number:	5
Page Range:	pp. 1002-1026
DOI:	10.1039/c5py01916h
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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