Cu(0)-mediated living radical polymerization: recent highlights and applications; a perspective
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. Importan...
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| Published in | Polymer chemistry Vol. 7; no. 5; pp. 12 - 126 |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2016
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| Summary: | 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.
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. |
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| Bibliography: | class, Honours) under the supervision of Professor Nikolaos Hadjichristidis & Marinos Pitsikalis, studying the combination of anionic polymerization with "click" chemistry. She is currently a final year PhD student in the Haddleton group focusing on controlled living radical polymerization, thermoplastics, photochemistry and sequence-controlled polymers. st David M. Haddleton obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor Robin Perutz in York and joined the faculty at Warwick in 1993 after 6 years at ICI/Zeneca. He was promoted to full Professor of Chemistry in 1998. His research focuses on controlled living radical polymerization to give macromolecules of designed, desired and targeted structure for biosciences and materials applications. Professor Haddleton is a co-author of >400 peer-reviewed scientific papers, >20 patents, >5 book chapters and has mentored >55 successful PhD candidates. His work has been cited in the scientific literature >14 000 times (h-index = 63) and has been the recipient of multiple awards including the Macro Group UK Medal, the Chemistry World, "Entrepreneur of the Year" Royal Society of Chemistry Prize, the Lord Stafford award for "Best University Spin-off" company and the Medema Metal from the Dutch polymer community. He is currently the Editor in Chief of "Polymer Chemistry", a high impact factor RSC journal. Dr Athina Anastasaki was born in Athens in 1988 and graduated from the University of Athens in 2011 with 1 nd Class Honours. She then undertook a PhD at University of Warwick under the supervision of Professor David Haddleton, sponsored by Lubrizol. In September 2014 she successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Shining a Light on Copper Mediated Living Radical Polymerization: Maximizing End-group Fidelity". Since January 2015, she is a Warwick (UK)/Monash (Australia) Alliance research fellow working alongside Professor Thomas Davis and Professor David Haddleton. Her research interests include controlled living radical polymerization methods, mechanistic studies, photochemistry, sequence-controlled polymers, glycochemistry and polymer-protein conjugates. In January 2016 she will commence a prestigious Elings Fellowship (USCB) to join Professor Craig Hawker's group in Santa Barbara. among 100 students), where she worked on photovoltaics during her diploma thesis. She subsequently moved in the University of Athens, Greece where she conducted her MSc studies (1 Vasiliki Nikolaou was born in Athens, Greece. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Patras, Greece in 2010, (4 year degree, ranked 2 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1759-9954 1759-9962 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c5py01916h |