Disulfide-mediated reversible polymerization toward intrinsically dynamic smart materials

Q Zhang, DH Qu, BL Feringa… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The development of a dynamic chemistry toolbox to endow materials dynamic behavior has
been key to the rational design of future smart materials. The rise of supramolecular and …

Photoinduced dithiolane crosslinking for multiresponsive dynamic hydrogels

BR Nelson, BE Kirkpatrick, CE Miksch… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While many hydrogels are elastic networks crosslinked by covalent bonds, viscoelastic
hydrogels with adaptable crosslinks are increasingly being developed to better recapitulate …

Renewable and recyclable covalent adaptable networks based on bio-derived lipoic acid

MA Alraddadi, V Chiaradia, CJ Stubbs, JC Worch… - Polymer …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The modern materials economy is inefficient since most products are principally derived
from non-renewable feedstocks and largely single-use in nature. Conventional thermoset …

Strain-Stiffening Hydrogels with Dynamic, Secondary Cross-Linking

KP Sonu, L Zhou, S Biswas, J Klier, AC Balazs… - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are water-swollen, typically soft networks useful as biomaterials and in other
fields of biotechnology. Hydrogel networks capable of sensing and responding to external …

Photo‐Crosslinking and Reductive Decrosslinking of Polymethacrylate‐Based Copolymers Containing 1, 2‐Dithiolane Rings

S Maes, V Scholiers, FE Du Prez - … Chemistry and Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study first describes a straightforward approach for the preparation of polymethacrylate‐
based networks containing variable amounts of lipoates. For this purpose, butyl …

From health supplement to versatile monomer: Radical ring-opening polymerization and depolymerization of α-lipoic acid

KR Albanese, JR de Alaniz, CJ Hawker, CM Bates - Polymer, 2024 - Elsevier
The radical ring-opening polymerization (rROP) of α-lipoic acid (LA) and its derivatives
represents a synthetically accessible, efficient, and scalable strategy to impart degradability …

Modular Routes to 1, 3-Dithian-2-ones and 1, 2-Dithiolanes

X Zeng, SZ Zard - Organic Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Convergent routes to 1, 3-dithian-2-ones based on the radical addition of xanthates to
alkenes possessing a suitably located (latent) leaving group are described. These can be …

Asymmetric total synthesis of (+)-(2 R, 4′ R, 8′ R)-α-tocopherol enabled by enzymatic desymmetrization

H Yang, J Liu, P Hu, L Gao, Z Huang… - Organic & Biomolecular …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
A new and highly stereoselective synthesis of chiral diol (S)-14, the common synthetic
intermediate to (+)-(2R, 4′ R, 8′ R)-α-tocopherol (1), was accomplished in seven steps …

Development and characterization of recyclable elastomers via covalent adaptable network

MA Alraddadi - 2023 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
The inherently high strength, thermal and solvent stability of thermoset is a consequence of
the permanent crosslinking between the polymer chains. However, this permanent crosslink …

Five-membered ring systems: with O and S (Se, Te) atoms

RA Aitken - Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
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