Issue 64, 2015

A ring to rule them all: a cyclic ketene acetal comonomer controls the nitroxide-mediated polymerization of methacrylates and confers tunable degradability

Abstract

2-Methylene-4-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane (MPDL) was successfully used as a controlling comonomer in NMP with oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (MeOEGMA) to prepare well-defined and degradable PEG-based P(MeOEGMA-co-MPDL) copolymers. The level of ester group incorporation is controlled, leading to reductions in molecular weight of up to 95% on hydrolysis. Neither the polymer nor its degradation products displayed cytoxicity. The method was also successfully applied to methyl methacrylate.

Graphical abstract: A ring to rule them all: a cyclic ketene acetal comonomer controls the nitroxide-mediated polymerization of methacrylates and confers tunable degradability

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Article type
Communication
Submitted
04 Jun 2015
Accepted
06 Jul 2015
First published
14 Jul 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 12847-12850

A ring to rule them all: a cyclic ketene acetal comonomer controls the nitroxide-mediated polymerization of methacrylates and confers tunable degradability

V. Delplace, E. Guégain, S. Harrisson, D. Gigmes, Y. Guillaneuf and J. Nicolas, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 12847 DOI: 10.1039/C5CC04610F

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