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ArticleACS central science2025

Entropy Drives the Predictive Discovery of an Optimal Cleavable Comonomer for ROMP.

Kwangwook Ko, Piper L MacNicol, Mingming Zhu, Lei Zhang, Saifudin M Abubakar, Jeremiah A Johnson

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Article in ACS central science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Kwangwook KoDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-2229
Piper L MacNicolDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Mingming ZhuExxonMobil Asia Pacific Research and Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200241, China.
Lei ZhangExxonMobil Asia Pacific Research and Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai 200241, China.
Saifudin M AbubakarExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., 1 HarbourFront Place, Singapore 098633, Singapore.
Jeremiah A JohnsonDepartment of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9157-6491

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Abstract

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of norbornene derivatives enables access to polymeric materials for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery to high-performance thermosets; however, the carbon-carbon backbones of ROMP-derived poly-(norbornenes) resist deconstruction under mild, selective conditions. Cleavable comonomers (CCs) have been introduced to address this limitation, yet their implementation has been hindered by prohibitive costs and/or suboptimal reactivity. Moreover, the discovery of existing CCs has been largely empirical, lacking clear design principles. Here, we identify the entropy of ring-opening as one of the key determinants of ROMP copolymerization behavior of the best-performing CCs reported to date. Guided by this insight, we establish predictive design criteria and introduce

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