Highly Branched Functional Polymer Architectures by Click-Chemistry Strategies

Complex Macromolecular Architectures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-265

  Lammens, Mieke ^a   Du Prez, Filip ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Click chemistry; CuAAC; Dendritic polymers; Hetero Diels Alder reaction; Highly branched; Polymer synthesis; Star shaped polymers; Thio bromo reaction; Thiol ene yne addition reaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886115001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470825150.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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