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Cover Picture: Sugar‐Based Polymers from d ‐Xylose: Living Cascade Polymerization, Tunable Degradation, and Small Molecule Release (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2/2021)
Author(s) -
Rizzo Antonio,
Peterson Gregory I.,
Bhaumik Atanu,
Kang Cheol,
Choi TaeLim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.202015719
Subject(s) - monomer , polymerization , polymer , xylose , chemistry , polymer chemistry , sugar , cover (algebra) , degradation (telecommunications) , polymer science , chemical engineering , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , fermentation , engineering
D‐xylose … . .. can be transformed into a polymerizable enyne sugar‐based monomer, as shown in the cover picture. Chalked in are the achieved properties of the various degradable polymers. The polymerization evolves a D‐xylose‐derived monomer to a full polymer chain which can be decomposed under mild acidic conditions, as explained by Tae‐Lim Choi et al. in their Research Article on page 849. The act of drawing rough ideas on a board, a practice chemists still enjoy, and the coming to fruition of those ideas on a molecular level are represented by the 2D chalk board transition to 3D polymer.