Acid‐catalyzed Disulfide‐mediated Reversible Polymerization for Recyclable Dynamic Covalent Materials

• Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. e202215329 - n/a
• Main Authors: Wang, Bang‐Sen, Zhang, Qi, Wang, Zhi‐Qiang, Shi, Chen‐Yu, Gong, Xue‐Qing, Tian, He, Qu, Da‐Hui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 06.03.2023
• Edition: International ed. in English
• Subjects: Cationic Polymerization; Cations; Chemical Recyclability; Chemical recycling; Disulfide bonds; Dynamic Chemistry; Monomers; Poly(Disulfide)S; Polymerization; Polymers; Ring opening polymerization; Room temperature; Chemical Recyclability; Poly(Disulfide)S; Cationic Polymerization; Dynamic Chemistry

Poly(1,2‐dithiolane)s are a family of intrinsically recyclable polymers due to their dynamic covalent disulfide linkages. Despite the common use of thiolate‐initiated anionic ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) under basic condition, cationic ROP is still not exploited. Here we report that disulfide b...