Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Regio- and sequence-controlled conjugated topological oligomers and polymers via boronate-tag assisted solution-phase strategy

  • Chaoran Xu,
  • Congze He,
  • Ning Li,
  • Shicheng Yang,
  • Yuxuan Du,
  • Krzysztof Matyjaszewski,
  • Xiangcheng Pan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26186-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The topology of polymers could be carefully controlled if the monomers were to be well-defined in sequence and regiochemical linkage. Here the authors present a method to synthesize oligomers of controlled sequence and regiochemistry, formed through iterative liquid-phase boronate-tagged syntheses, which are precursors to topologically distinct polymers.