journal article May 27, 2016

Organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization driven by visible light

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Abstract
Precise control from a metal-free catalyst

Polymerization can be a rather dangerous free for all, with molecules joining randomly in chains at a chaotic pace. One of modern chemistry's great accomplishments has been the development of methods to assemble polymers in steady, orderly steps. However, order comes at a price, and often it's the need for metal catalysts that are hard to remove from the plastic product. Theriot
et al.
used theory to guide the design of a metal-free light-activated catalyst that offers precise control in atom transfer radical polymerization, alleviating concerns about residual metal contamination (see the Perspective by Shanmugam and Boyer).


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Published
May 27, 2016
Vol/Issue
352(6289)
Pages
1082-1086
Funding
NSF Award: CHE-1214131
University of Colorado Boulder
Cite This Article
Jordan C. Theriot, Chern-Hooi Lim, Haishen Yang, et al. (2016). Organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization driven by visible light. Science, 352(6289), 1082-1086. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf3935
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