Issue 40, 2022

Exhaustive Baeyer–Villiger oxidation: a tailor-made post-polymerization modification to access challenging poly(vinyl acetate) copolymers

Abstract

The discovery of exhaustive (nearly quantitative) post-polymerization modifications (PPM) relies heavily on the efficiency of their corresponding small-molecule protocols. However, the direct translation of existing small-molecule protocols into PPM methods has never been guaranteed due to the intrinsic differences between small-molecule substrates and polymers. Herein, we introduce the direct optimization on polymers (DOP) as a complementary approach to developing exhaustive PPM reactions. As proof of the DOP concept, we present an exhaustive Baeyer–Villiger (BV) post-modification which cannot be accessed by conventional approaches. This user-friendly methodology provides general access to synthetically challenging copolymers of vinyl acetate and more activated monomers (MAMs) including both statistical and narrow-dispersed block copolymers. Furthermore, a scalable one-pot copolymerization/exhaustive BV post-modification procedure was developed to produce such materials showing improved performance over regular PVAc.

Graphical abstract: Exhaustive Baeyer–Villiger oxidation: a tailor-made post-polymerization modification to access challenging poly(vinyl acetate) copolymers

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
22 Jun 2022
Accepted
05 Sep 2022
First published
06 Sep 2022
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2022,13, 11746-11754

Exhaustive Baeyer–Villiger oxidation: a tailor-made post-polymerization modification to access challenging poly(vinyl acetate) copolymers

P. Ma, C. M. Plummer, W. Luo, J. Pang, Y. Chen and L. Li, Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 11746 DOI: 10.1039/D2SC03492A

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