Facile synthesis and versatile topological transformation of mono-cleavable symmetric starlike terpolymers

摘要

A straightforward strategy involving a RAFT process and ring-opening polymerization was used to construct symmetric reduction-responsive amphiphilic A_(2m)B_(2n)C_2 (m ≈ n ≈ 3) star-like terpolymers with precise microstructure, which could be efficiently converted into thiol-functionalized telechelic stars, degraded A_mB_nC miktoarm stars and comblike-linear multi-block copolymers via postmodification.