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Block Copolymers with Functional Inorganic Blocks: Living Addition Polymerization of Inorganic Monomers
Author(s) -
Manners Ian
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.200604503
Subject(s) - copolymer , monomer , polymerization , living anionic polymerization , living polymerization , polymer chemistry , chemistry , block (permutation group theory) , anionic addition polymerization , materials science , polymer , organic chemistry , radical polymerization , mathematics , geometry
Doesn't have to be strictly organic to live : Living polymerizations of inorganic monomers provide a route to block copolymers that self‐assemble in thin films or selective solvents to form functional nanodomains containing inorganic elements. An exciting addition to this field involves the recently reported living anionic addition polymerization of phosphaalkenes (see scheme; Mes=2,4,6‐Me 3 C 6 H 2 ).