Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization with ppm catalyst loading under sunlight

  • Qiang Ma,
  • Jinshuai Song,
  • Xun Zhang,
  • Yu Jiang,
  • Li Ji,
  • Saihu Liao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20645-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Organocatalytic atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP) is attractive due to its metal-free nature but catalysts are rarely applied at a low loading. Here the authors introduce a catalyst design logic based on heteroatom-doping of polycyclic arenes, which led to the discovery of oxygen-doped anthanthrene as an organic photoredox catalysts for O-ATRP.