A new polymer click platform has been developed utilizing readily available and inexpensive starting materials. This system unites the high reactivity of cyclopentadiene in Diels-Alder cycloadditions with the high stability commonly observed with less reactive dienes, allowing for incorporation into a number of polymer systems. To highlight the potential of this chemistry, we demonstrate that this new system may be included into polymer chains through functionalized initiators and monomers in both ROP and RAFT polymerizations. In addition, the new click platform is compatible with acrylates via a post-polymerization method. The potential of this click platform to conjugate traditionally incompatible polymers into complex architectures is especially exciting and may be accomplished by functionalizing polymers of interest with this new approach.

Development of a cheap, efficient and stable “click” platform to access complex polymer architectures

2019 Spring National Meeting

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