Facile synthesis and versatile topological transformation of mono-cleavable symmetric starlike terpolymers
Xiao Jiang, Meijing Zhang, Shixian Li, Wei Shao, Youliang Zhao*
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/cc/c2cc35275c
Abstract: A straightforward strategy involving a RAFT process and ring-opening polymerization was used to construct symmetric reduction-responsive amphiphilic A2mB2nC2 (m ≈ n ≈ 3) starlike terpolymers with precise microstructure, which could be efficiently converted into thiol-functionalized telechelic stars, degraded AmBnC miktoarm stars and comblike-linear multiblock copolymers via postmodification.