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Correction: End-functionalized polymers by controlled/living radical polymerizations: synthesis and applications
Di
Zhou
,
Liang-Wei
Zhu
,
Bai-Heng
Wu
,
Zhi-Kang
Xu
and
Ling-Shu
Wan
*
MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, MOE Engineering Research Center of Membrane and Water Treatment Technology, and Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials & Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China. E-mail: lswan@zju.edu.cn
First published on 31st January 2022
Abstract
Correction for ‘End-functionalized polymers by controlled/living radical polymerizations: synthesis and applications’ by Di Zhou et al., Polym. Chem., 2022, 13, 300–358, DOI: 10.1039/D1PY01252E.
The authors apologise for the incorrect statement of the discovery history of RAFT as presented in the first paragraph of section 3, which incautiously missed the pioneering contribution made by P. Corpart, D. Charmot, T. Biadatti, S. Zard and D. Michelet. The statement should be corrected as:
RAFT polymerization and macromolecular design via the interchange of xanthates (MADIX) were proposed by Chiefari et al. and Corpart et al., respectively, in 1998.1 Actually, RAFT and MADIX proceed via the same addition–fragmentation process in controlled radical polymerization with MADIX mainly focused on xanthates as chain transfer agent. For simplicity, we will refer to the two systems as RAFT polymerization herein afterwards. RAFT polymerization has also become one of the most versatile and efficient CLRP techniques to design well-defined polymers with complex architectures and functionalities.
The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.
References
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