Issue 37, 2007
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Chemical Communications

Supercritical CO2: an effective medium for the chemo-enzymatic synthesis of block copolymers?

Silvia Villarroya,*a   Kristofer J. Thurecht,a   Andreas Heiseb  and  Steven M. Howdle*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK
E-mail: steve.howdle@nottingham.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)115 9513058
Tel: +44 (0)115 9513486

b DSM Research, P.O. Box 18, Geleen, The Netherlands

Abstract

In this review, we describe the combination of enzymatic polymerisation and controlled free radical polymerisation in supercritical carbon dioxide. This combination facilitates the preparation of a range of block and graft copolymers, some of which cannot easily be obtained by conventional polymer synthesis. Biocatalysis in polymer science provides significant new opportunities and will open up a very broad range of new polymeric materials.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B701128H
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
24 Jan 2007
Accepted
28 Mar 2007
First published
17 Apr 2007

Chem. Commun., 2007, 3805-3813

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S. Villarroya, K. J. Thurecht, A. Heise and S. M. Howdle, Chem. Commun., 2007, 3805 DOI: 10.1039/B701128H

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