Light-triggered click chemistry

GS Kumar, Q Lin - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The merging of click chemistry with discrete photochemical processes has led to the creation
of a new class of click reactions, collectively known as photoclick chemistry. These light …

Seeing the light: advancing materials chemistry through photopolymerization

N Corrigan, J Yeow, P Judzewitsch… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The application of photochemistry to polymer and material science has led to the
development of complex yet efficient systems for polymerization, polymer post …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Polymer Functionalization

E Blasco, MB Sims, AS Goldmann, BS Sumerlin… - …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The translation of small molecule chemistries into efficient methodologies for polymer
functionalization spans several decades, enabling critical advances in soft matter materials …

Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification

Q Shi, H Yin, R Song, J Xu, J Tan, X Zhou, J Cen… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Identification and quantification of synthetic polymers in complex biological milieu are crucial
for delivery, sensing and scaffolding functions, but conventional techniques based on …

Engineering precise sequence-defined polymers for advanced functions

Q Shi, Z Deng, M Hou, X Hu, S Liu - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike natural macromolecules (eg, nucleic acids and proteins) possessing precisely
defined molar mass, chain sequence, chirality, and topology, synthetic polymers are typically …

Sequence-and stereo-defined macromolecules: properties and emerging functionalities

R Szweda - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, display various complex
functionalities in biological systems. These functionalities depend on the macromolecular …

Visible and near-infrared light-induced photoclick reactions

Y Fu, NA Simeth, W Szymanski… - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Photoclick reactions combine the advantages offered by light-driven processes, that is, non-
invasive and high spatiotemporal control, with classical click chemistry and have found …

Encoding information into polymers

MGTA Rutten, FW Vaandrager… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Defined-sequence polymers have great potential as durable and high-density data-storage
media. DNA already fulfils this role in nature, using the sequence of its four nucleobases to …

Photoclick chemistry: a bright idea

BD Fairbanks, LJ Macdougall, S Mavila, J Sinha… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
At its basic conceptualization, photoclick chemistry embodies a collection of click reactions
that are performed via the application of light. The emergence of this concept has had …

Single-chain nanoparticles as catalytic nanoreactors

H Rothfuss, ND Knöfel, PW Roesky… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The need for efficient, tailor-made catalysts has inspired chemists to fuse the design
principles of natural enzymes with synthetic macromolecular architectures. A highly …