Biodegradable copolymers with pendant

Synthesis of Biodegradable Copolymers with Pendant Hydrophilic Functional Groups... 

The free radical polymerizations of cyclic ketene acetals have recently evoked a lot of interest (10-13). TTie oly(e-caprolactone) (PCL) can be synthesized by free radical ring opening polymerization (10). The copolymerization of its monomer, 2-methylene-l,3-dioxepane (MDO), with some vinyl monomers resulted in an aliphatic ester backbone, as well as the pendant functional groups from the vinyl monomers (10). By free radical polymerization of MDO and the vinyl monomers vinylphosphonic acid (VPA), dimethylvinylphosphonate (VPE) and acrylic acid (AA), we synthesized a series of biodegradable copolymers including PCL... 

Ouchi T, Miyazaki H, Arimura H, Tasaka F, Hamada A, Ohya Y (2002a), Synthesis of biodegradable amphiphilic AB-type diblock copolymers of lactide and depsipeptide with pendant reactive groups , J. Pol. Set Part A Polymer Chemistry, 40 (9), 1218-1225. 

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