Multi-step-growth polymerization synthesis

Asides from chain-growth, step-growth, and multi-step growth strategies, sequence-defined polymers may also be prepared using polymerization concepts inspired by biological polymerizations such as replication, transcription, and translation. For instance, sequence-defined templates can be used for monomer sequence regulation in non-natural polymerizations. Alternatively, catalytic molecular machines inspired by biocatalysts such as enzymes and ribozymes have been tested for the synthesis of sequence-controlled polymers. These developments are summarized in this last section of the chapter. 

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