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Nanometer‐Sized Shell Molecules That Confine Endohedral Polymerizing Units
Author(s) -
Murase Takashi,
Sato Sota,
Fujita Makoto
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200603561
Subject(s) - polymerization , monomer , representation (politics) , methyl methacrylate , space (punctuation) , nanometre , shell (structure) , core (optical fiber) , polymer chemistry , materials science , polymer science , nanotechnology , chemistry , physics , computer science , polymer , composite material , politics , political science , law , operating system
Polymerization in a nutshell : A discrete spherical Pd 12 L 24 complex was prepared that confines 24 tethered methyl methacrylate (MMA) units internally (see picture; shell blue, Pd yellow, O red, C gray; MMA shown as space‐filling representation). Endohedral radical polymerization of the monomer proceeds efficiently as a result of the high concentration of MMA units within the restricted space of the core (inner diameter: 3.7 nm).