Polymerization of Enantiopure Monomers Using Syndiospecific Catalysts: A New Approach To Sequence Control in Polymer Synthesis

摘要

The properties of many naturally occurring macromolecules, such as polypeptides, DNA, and polysaccharides, are vitally dependent on their sequence. In contrast, most synthetic polymers, especially commercial ones, are either simple homopolymers or random copolymers. A long-standing frontier in polymer chemistry is the control of the monomer sequences along a macromolecular backbone, which can give rise to a much wider array of polymeric materials from a limited set of commodity monomeric feedstocks.