Highly Branched Functional Polymer Architectures by Click-Chemistry Strategies

Highly Branched Functional Polymer Architectures by Click-Chemistry Strategies 

Polymer Chemistry Research Group (PCR), Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S4-bis, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium 

Click chemistry comprises a number of organic heteroatom coupling procedures that comply with the stringent criteria as defined by Sharpless (see also Chapter 2) (Kolb et al, 2001). Among these click reactions, the copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction 

Complex Macromolecular Architectures Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly, First Edition. 

Edited by Nikos Hadjichristidis, Akira Hirao, Yasuyuki Tezuka and Filip Du Prez. 

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