ReviewChemical science2025
Leveraging reactivity to gain precise control over macromolecular structures with photocatalysis in reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations.
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- Buffer and Polymer Molecular Weight Affect Zinc Myoglobin-Mediated PET-RAFT Polymerizations.ACS macro letters · 2026Article
- Tuning Polyacrylate Composition to Recognize and Modulate Fluorescent Proteins.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Photocatalysis has gained a prominent role in reversible-deactivation radical polymerization (RDRP) techniques. Photocatalyzed polymerizations are appealing due to ease of implementation, oxygen tolerance, spatiotemporal and orthogonal control, and increased uniformity in polymer chain ends compared to exogenous initiation. Due to these attractive features, photocatalysis has been widely used and incorporated into atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization. Herein, recent examples of photocatalysis in RDRP techniques at the macroscopic, topological, and primary sequence levels of control are presented to highlight how photocatalysis has led to advances at all levels of polymer chemistry. For example, photocatalysis can be used for the selective photoactivation of distinct end-groups, enabling the synthesis of sequence-defined oligomers/polymers, or complex polymer topologies. However, there are still significant gaps in photocatalyzed RDRP (
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