Si-Ting Lin1, Chung-Chi Wang2, Chi-Jung Chang3, Yasuyuki Nakamura4, Kun-Yi Andrew Lin5, Chih-Feng Huang1. 1. Department of Chemical Engineering, i-Center for Advanced Science and Technology (iCAST), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402-27, Taiwan. 2. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407-05, Taiwan. 3. Department of Chemical Engineering, Feng Chia University, 100 Wenhwa Road, Seatwen District, Taichung 40724, Taiwan. 4. Data-Driven Polymer Design Group, Research and Services Division of Materials Data and Integrated System (MaDIS), National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan. 5. Department of Environmental Engineering, Innovation and Development Center of Sustainable Agriculture & Research Center of Sustainable Energy and Nanotechnology, i-Center for Advanced Science and Technology (iCAST), National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402-27, Taiwan.
Abstract
This review presents the latest developments in (bio)degradable approaches and functional aliphatic polyesters and polycarbonates prepared by typical ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactones and trimethylene carbonates. It also considers several recent innovative synthetic methods including radical ring-opening polymerization (RROP), atom transfer radical polyaddition (ATRPA), and simultaneous chain- and step-growth radical polymerization (SCSRP) that produce aliphatic polyesters. With regard to (bio)degradable approaches, we have summarized several representative cleavable linkages that make it possible to obtain cleavable polymers. In the section on functional aliphatic polyesters, we explore the syntheses of specific functional lactones, which can be performed by ring-opening copolymerization of typical lactone/lactide monomers. Last but not the least, in the recent innovative methods section, three interesting synthetic methodologies, RROP, ATRPA, and SCSRP are discussed in detail with regard to their reaction mechanisms and polymer functionalities.
This review presents the latest developments in (bio)degradable approaches and functional aliphatic polyesters and polypan class="Chemical">carbonates prepared by typical ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactones and trimethylene carbonates. It also considers several recent innovative synthetic methods including radical ring-opening polymerization (RROP), atom transfer radical polyaddition (ATRPA), and simultaneous chain- and step-growth radical polymerization (SCSRP) that produce aliphatic polyesters. With regard to (bio)degradable approaches, we have summarized several representative cleavable linkages that make it possible to obtain cleavable polymers. In the section on functional aliphatic polyesters, we explore the syntheses of specific functional lactones, which can be performed by ring-opening copolymerization of typical lactone/lactide monomers. Last but not the least, in the recent innovative methods section, three interesting synthetic methodologies, RROP, ATRPA, and SCSRP are discussed in detail with regard to their reaction mechanisms and polymer functionalities.
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aliphatic polycarbonates; aliphatic polyesters; atom transfer radical polyadditions; ring-opening radical polymerizations; simultaneous step- and chain-growth polymerizations