Click chemistry strategies for the accelerated synthesis of functional macromolecules

Z Geng, JJ Shin, Y **, CJ Hawker - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Click chemistry is one of the most powerful strategies for constructing polymeric soft
materials with precise control over architecture and functionality. In this review, we provide a …

Simplifying the synthesis of dendrimers: accelerated approaches

MV Walter, M Malkoch - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendrimers are highly branched and monodisperse macromolecules that display an exact
and large number of functional groups distributed with unprecedented control on the …

Segregation-induced in situ hydrophilic modification of poly (vinylidene fluoride) ultrafiltration membranes via sticky poly (ethylene glycol) blending

H Sun, X Yang, Y Zhang, X Cheng, Y Xu, Y Bai… - Journal of Membrane …, 2018 - Elsevier
A novel mussel-inspired sticky catechol-functionalized poly (ethylene glycol)(Cate-PEG) was
synthesized and deployed as an additive to modify the hydrophobic poly (vinylidene …

“Clicking” on/with polymers: a rapidly expanding field for the straightforward preparation of novel macromolecular architectures

K Kempe, A Krieg, CR Becer… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of controlled polymerization techniques and “click” reactions form an
efficient platform for the preparation of polymers in various architectures. In this critical …

Orthogonality in organic, polymer, and supramolecular chemistry: from Merrifield to click chemistry

CH Wong, SC Zimmerman - Chemical Communications, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of orthogonality has been applied to many areas of chemistry, ranging from
wave functions to chromatography. But it was Barany and Merrifield's orthogonal protecting …

“Click”-inspired chemistry in macromolecular science: matching recent progress and user expectations

P Espeel, FE Du Prez - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
This year, it has been a decade that the concept of “click” chemistry was pioneered in
polymer and material science by the exploration of the synthetic scope of copper-catalyzed …

Dendrimers in vaccine delivery: Recent progress and advances

S Chowdhury, I Toth, RJ Stephenson - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Dendrimers are well-defined, highly branched, multivalent and monodisperse molecules
which host a range of attractive, yet functional, chemical and biological characteristics. A …

Advances in the chemistry of dendrimers

M Sowinska, Z Urbanczyk-Lipkowska - New Journal of Chemistry, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Dendrimers, which are highly branched, multivalent and monodisperse polymers, have
received continuous interest in recent years because of the global demand for new …

The dendrimer paradox–high medical expectations but poor clinical translation

S Svenson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This review was written with the intention to critically evaluate the status of dendrimers as
drug carriers and find answers as to why this class of compounds has not translated into the …

Research progress of UV-curable polyurethane acrylate-based hardening coatings

J Fu, L Wang, H Yu, M Haroon, F Haq, W Shi… - Progress in Organic …, 2019 - Elsevier
With the development of society, plastics play a significant role in daily supplies owing to
their advantages. Whereas, insufficient scratch resistance and vulnerable plastic surfaces …