Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Coding and decoding libraries of sequence-defined functional copolymers synthesized via photoligation

  • Nicolas Zydziak,
  • Waldemar Konrad,
  • Florian Feist,
  • Sergii Afonin,
  • Steffen Weidner,
  • Christopher Barner-Kowollik

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13672
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Controlling the molecular sequence of polymers and oligomers is a challenging task. Here the authors use a photoligation approach to synthesise macromolecules with functionality at defined positions throughout the chain, and additionally decode the sequence information via tandem mass spectrometry.