Mechanism-Guided Design of Chain-Growth Click Polymerization Based on a Thiol-Michael Reaction
Suqiu Jiang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006 China
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Prof. Hanchu Huang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006 China
Search for more papers by this authorSuqiu Jiang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006 China
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Prof. Hanchu Huang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510006 China
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The development of chain-growth click polymerization is challenging yet desirable in modern polymer chemistry. In this work, we reported a novel chain-growth click polymerization based on the thiol-Michael reaction. This polymerization could be performed efficiently under ambient conditions and spatiotemporally regulated by ultraviolet light, allowing the synthesis of sulfur-containing polymers in excellent yields and high molecular weights. Density functional theory calculations indicated that the thiolate addition to the Michael acceptor is the rate-determining step, and introducing the phenyl group could facilitate the chain-growth process. This polymerization is a new type of chain-growth click polymerization, which will provide a unique approach to creating functional polymers.
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