Rhodanine-based Knoevenagel reaction and ring-opening polymerization for efficiently constructing multicyclic polymers

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 3654 - 10
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ze, Nie, Xuan, Wang, Fei, Chen, Guang, Huang, Wei-Qiang, Xia, Lei, Zhang, Wen-Jian, Hao, Zong-Yao, Hong, Chun-Yan, Wang, Long-Hai, You, Ye-Zi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.07.2020; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/638/455/941; 639/638/455/958; 639/638/549/933; Aldehydes; Backbone; Chain branching; Chemical synthesis; Humanities and Social Sciences; Initiators; multidisciplinary; Physical properties; Polymerization; Polymers; Ring opening polymerization; Science; Science (multidisciplinary)

Cyclic polymers have a number of unique physical properties compared with those of their linear counterparts. However, the methods for the synthesis of cyclic polymers are very limited, and some multicyclic polymers are still not accessible now. Here, we found that the five˗membered cyclic structure...