A new approach to hyperbranched polymers by ring-opening polymerization of an AB monomer: 4-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-e-caprolactone

Macromolecules

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 6881-6884

  Liu, Mingjun ^a   Vladimirov, Nikolay ^a   Fréchet, Jean M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADATION; CATALYSTS; CONDENSATION; DIMERS; MACROMOLECULES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; REACTION KINETICS; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

POLYCAPROLACTONE; POLYDISPERSITY;

POLYESTERS;

EID: 0032596002     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma990785x     Document Type: Article

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