Arylene-ethynylene macrocycles via depolymerization-macrocyclization

Macromolecules

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3685-3687

  Gross, Dustin E ^a   Moore, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CONDITION; ALKYNE METATHESIS; ARYLENE; CRUDE REACTION MIXTURES; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MACROCYCLES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMERS; MONODISPERSE; MONOMETHYL ETHERS; OXIDATIVE COUPLINGS; SIDE-CHAINS; SONOGASHIRA COUPLING; TERMINAL ALKYNE; THERMODYNAMIC CONDITIONS; TRIETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ACETYLENE; ETHERS; GLYCOLS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT;

POLYMERS;

EID: 79960013010     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma2006552     Document Type: Article

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