NEW CHEMISTRY YIELDS SYNTHETIC POLYMERS WITH HIGHLY CONTROLLED SEQUENCES

摘要

Craig Hawker and Will Gutekunst describe a new approach to creating sequence-controlled synthetic polymers that brings together several recent important advances in the field (DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b04940). Their new method combines a technique known as ring opening metathesis polymerization and a step-growth approach that yields periodic polymers from preformed sequences.