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Back Cover: Functionalizable Stereocontrolled Cyclopolyethers by Ring‐Closing Metathesis as Natural Polymer Mimics (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 39/2018)
Author(s) -
Alkattan Mohammed,
Prunet Joëlle,
Shaver Michael P.
Publication year - 2018
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.201808277
Subject(s) - dihydroxylation , ring opening metathesis polymerisation , metathesis , polymerization , ring (chemistry) , ethylene glycol , polymer chemistry , polymer , desymmetrization , materials science , polymer science , chemistry , organic chemistry , enantioselective synthesis , catalysis
Topological control in biopolymers relies on control of complex stereoregular cyclic architectures. In their Communication on page 12835 ff., J. Prunet, M. P. Shaver, and M. Alkattan exploit the ring‐closing metathesis (RCM) of an olefin‐pendant isotactic polymer to prepare a stereocontrolled 1,4‐linked cyclopolyether. Post‐polymerization dihydroxylation (DH) affords a poly(ethylene glycol) backbone with sugar‐like functionalities that mimic the structure of amylose.