Macromolecular structure synthetic organic macromolecules

Because of the focus on new materials, macromolecular chemists are concerned with the relation between molecular structure and the material properties, which results from intermolecular interactions and the organization within supramolecular architectures. However, the structures of synthetic macromolecules are polydisperse and not well defined, and the dominant intermolecular interactions, such as entanglements, are mostly not directed and localized [5]. So far, it must be stated that our ability to prepare high molar mass molecules lacks the perfection which is necessary for the reproducible assembly of well-defined supramolecular units [4,6]. 

On the way from molecular to macromolecular and supramolecular chemistry, researchers have realized increasingly complex functional materials however, these still lag behind compared to highly sophisticated macroscopic architectures with precise and predefined structure that are encountered in biological systems. In this review, we have summarized the first steps chemists have taken toward the construction of macromolecular architectures with defined three-dimensional structures. In the past decade, polymers with defined secondary structure mimicking one or more aspects from biological systems have been prepared. Issues important for the programmed organization of synthetic macromolecules that have... 

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