[HTML][HTML] Photocontrolled RAFT polymerization: past, present, and future

Y Lee, C Boyer, MS Kwon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we provide a brief history, progress, and applications, and discuss the
remaining challenges of photocontrolled reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer …

Rational design of photocatalysts for controlled polymerization: effect of structures on photocatalytic activities

C Wu, N Corrigan, CH Lim, W Liu, G Miyake… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, the use of photocatalysts (PCs) in controlled polymerization has
brought new opportunities in sophisticated macromolecular synthesis. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Perylenetetracarboxylic acid nanosheets with internal electric fields and anisotropic charge migration for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Y Guo, Q Zhou, J Nan, W Shi, F Cui, Y Zhu - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Highly efficient hydrogen evolution reactions carried out via photocatalysis using solar light
remain a formidable challenge. Herein, perylenetetracarboxylic acid nanosheets with a …

Cationic RAFT and DT polymerization

M Uchiyama, K Satoh, M Kamigaito - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the first report of cationic reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT)
polymerization in 2015, there have been great developments in many aspects of cationic …

Regulating cationic polymerization: From structural control to life cycle management

L Wu, B Rondon, S Dym, W Wang, K Chen… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cationic polymerization is a powerful strategy for the production of well-defined polymers
and advanced materials. In particular, the emergence of living cationic polymerization has …

Degradable vinyl random copolymers via photocontrolled radical ring‐opening cascade copolymerization

W Wang, Z Zhou, D Sathe, X Tang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Degradable vinyl polymers by radical ring‐opening polymerization are promising solutions
to the challenges caused by non‐degradable vinyl plastics. However, achieving even …

Anion-binding catalysis enables living cationic polymerization

M Li, Z Zhang, Y Yan, W Lv, Z Li, X Wang, Y Tao - Nature Synthesis, 2022 - nature.com
Anion-binding interactions in nature have enabled the development of organocatalytic
transformations; however, even though ionic species act as intermediates or precursors in …

Organocatalytic, stereoselective, cationic reversible addition–fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization of vinyl ethers

X Zhang, Z Yang, Y Jiang, S Liao - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Tacticity is a crucial factor affecting the properties of synthetic polymer materials. Here, we
introduce a type of chiral organic Brønsted acid catalyst, 1, 1′-bi-2-naphthol-derived N, N …

Visible‐Light‐Enabled Organocatalyzed Controlled Alternating Terpolymerization of Perfluorinated Vinyl Ethers

Q Quan, M Ma, Z Wang, Y Gu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polymerizations of perfluorinated vinyl ethers (PFVEs) provide an important category of
fluoropolymers that have received considerable interests in applications. In this work, we …

Coumarinacyl anilinium salt: a versatile visible and NIR photoinitiator for cationic and step-growth polymerizations

L Li, M Wan, Z Li, Y Luo, S Wu, X Liu, Y Yagci - ACS Macro Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
A coumarinacyl anilinium (CAA) salt, facilely synthesized via a one-pot reaction, is shown to
be a versatile visible and NIR photoinitiator for cationic and step-growth polymerizations …