From stable radicals to thermally robust high-spin diradicals and triradicals

C Shu, Z Yang, A Rajca - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Stable radicals and thermally robust high-spin di-and triradicals have emerged as important
organic materials due to their promising applications in diverse fields. New fundamental …

Recyclable/degradable materials via the insertion of labile/cleavable bonds using a comonomer approach

C Lefay, Y Guillaneuf - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymers have many advantages such as low weight, low cost, and, importantly, stability
under thermal, chemical, and mechanical stress. This stability, on the other hand, leads to …

Tailored silyl ether monomers enable backbone-degradable polynorbornene-based linear, bottlebrush and star copolymers through ROMP

P Shieh, HVT Nguyen, JA Johnson - Nature chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornene-based (macro) monomers is a
powerful approach for the synthesis of macromolecules with diverse compositions and …

Conjugated nitroxides

EV Tretyakov, VI Ovcharenko… - Russian Chemical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, research dealing with organic paramagnetic compounds such as stable
radicals and high-spin systems has been focused on applied aspects. Several key trends …

Organic radical materials in biomedical applications: State of the art and perspectives

X Cui, Z Zhang, Y Yang, S Li, CS Lee - Exploration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to their unique chemical reactivities and paramagnetism, organic radicals with
unpaired electrons have found widespread exploration in physical, chemical, and biological …

Molecular polymer bottlebrushes in nanomedicine: therapeutic and diagnostic applications

M Müllner - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular polymer bottlebrushes are densely grafted, individual macromolecules with
nanoscale proportions. The last decade has seen an increased focus on this material class …

Miktoarm stars via grafting-through copolymerization: Self-assembly and the star-to-bottlebrush transition

AE Levi, J Lequieu, JD Horne, MW Bates… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The grafting-through copolymerization of two distinct macromonomers via ring-opening
metathesis polymerization is typically used to form statistical or diblock bottlebrush polymers …

ABC triblock bottlebrush copolymer-based injectable hydrogels: design, synthesis, and application to expanding the therapeutic index of cancer …

F Vohidov, LE Milling, Q Chen, W Zhang… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Bottlebrush copolymers are a versatile class of macromolecular architectures with broad
applications in the fields of drug delivery, self-assembly, and polymer networks. Here, the …

Thiol-triggered deconstruction of bifunctional silyl ether terpolymers via an SN Ar-triggered cascade

CM Brown, KEL Husted, Y Wang, LJ Kilgallon… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
While Si-containing polymers can often be deconstructed using chemical triggers such as
fluoride, acids, and bases, they are resistant to cleavage by mild reagents such as biological …

100th anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: fundamentals for the future of macromolecular nitroxide radicals

S Wang, AD Easley, JL Lutkenhaus - ACS Macro Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Macromolecular radicals, radical polymers, and polyradicals bear unique functionalities
derived from their pendant radical groups. The increasing need for organic functional …