Photocontrolled RAFT polymerization: past, present, and future

Y Lee, C Boyer, MS Kwon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we provide a brief history, progress, and applications, and discuss the
remaining challenges of photocontrolled reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer …

Rational design of photocatalysts for controlled polymerization: effect of structures on photocatalytic activities

C Wu, N Corrigan, CH Lim, W Liu, G Miyake… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, the use of photocatalysts (PCs) in controlled polymerization has
brought new opportunities in sophisticated macromolecular synthesis. However, the …

Progress and perspectives beyond traditional RAFT polymerization

MD Nothling, Q Fu, A Reyhani… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of advanced materials based on well‐defined polymeric architectures is
proving to be a highly prosperous research direction across both industry and academia …

Role of external field in polymerization: mechanism and kinetics

YN Zhou, JJ Li, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The past decades have witnessed an increasing interest in developing advanced
polymerization techniques subjected to external fields. Various physical modulations, such …

Cationic RAFT and DT polymerization

M Uchiyama, K Satoh, M Kamigaito - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the first report of cationic reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT)
polymerization in 2015, there have been great developments in many aspects of cationic …

Advances in polymerizations modulated by external stimuli

AM Doerr, JM Burroughs, SR Gitter, X Yang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Synthetic polymer chemistry endeavors to imitate the spatial and temporal control exhibited
within biological systems to obtain well-defined polymeric materials with unique structures …

Metal-free cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers with strict temporal control by employing an organophotocatalyst

X Zhang, Y Jiang, Q Ma, S Hu… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
By virtue of spatiotemporal control over the chain propagating, visible-light-regulated
organocatalytic photoredox cationic polymerization provides an appealing approach for the …

Highly efficient organic photocatalysts discovered via a computer-aided-design strategy for visible-light-driven atom transfer radical polymerization

VK Singh, C Yu, S Badgujar, Y Kim, Y Kwon, D Kim… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Organocatalysed photoredox-mediated atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP) is a
very promising polymerization method as it eliminates concerns associated with transition …

Photoredox Catalysis in Photocontrolled Cationic Polymerizations of Vinyl Ethers

RJ Sifri, Y Ma, BP Fors - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Advances in photocontrolled polymerizations have expanded the scope of
polymer architectures and structures that can be synthesized for various applications. The …

Functionalized azetidines via visible light-enabled aza Paternò-Büchi reactions

MR Becker, AD Richardson, CS Schindler - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
Azetidines are four-membered nitrogen-containing heterocycles that hold great promise in
current medicinal chemistry due to their desirable pharmacokinetic effects. However, a lack …