Chemically Recyclable Polymer System Based on Nucleophilic Aromatic Ring-Opening Polymerization.

ABSTRACT: The development of chemically recyclable polymers with desirable properties is a long-standing but challenging goal in polymer science. Central to this challenge is the need for reversible chemical reactions that can equilibrate at rapid rates and provide efficient polymerization and depolymerization cycles. Based on the dynamic chemistry of nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S_NAr), we report a chemically recyclable polythioether system derived from readily accessible benzothiocane (BT) monomers. This system represents the first example of a well-defined monomer platform capable of chain-growth ring-opening polymerization through an S_NAr manifold. The polymerizations reach completion in minutes, and the pendant functionalities are easily customized to tune mat

SUBMITTER: Su YL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10311534 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature