Carefully reading Paul J. Flory’s classic textbook of “Principles of Polymer Chemistry” always inspires new ideas to develop polymerization methods that can effectively overcome the synthetic challenges in dendrimers, hyperbranched polymers and linear polymers. This presentation discusses our recent interest on utilizing efficient organic reactions, such as copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction and Friedel-Crafts hydroxyalkylation reaction, to develop new methods for syntheses of hyperbranched polymers with well-defined nanostructures and linear polymers with high molecular weights. These polymers are successfully applied as unimolecular nanocontainers for encapsulation and as membrane materials for transportation.

Utilizing efficient organic reactions to develop new polymerization methods: Novel systems go beyond traditional step-growth polymerizations

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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