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ArticleACS polymers Au2026

Isosteric Polymer Design as an Approach to Recapitulate the Properties of Plasticized Commercial Polymers.

Yonghwan Kwon, Caleb T Kozuszek, Mason C Chapman, Nicholas G Taylor, Aleksandr V Zhukhovitskiy, Frank A Leibfarth

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6 authors.

Yonghwan KwonDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Caleb T KozuszekDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Mason C ChapmanDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.
Nicholas G TaylorEastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tennessee 37660, United States.
Aleksandr V ZhukhovitskiyDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3873-4179
Frank A LeibfarthDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7737-0331

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Plasticizers are small molecule additives compounded with polymers to tune their physical properties and facilitate processing, but plasticizers often leach from plastics, where they potentially have negative environmental and ecological consequences. Synthetic design can obviate the need for plasticizers by identifying a polymer with the required properties for an application without the need for external additives. In particular, designing isosteric analogues to commercial polymers that preserve key functionality while expanding the range of accessible thermal and mechanical properties would provide benefits beyond conventional copolymerization or side-chain modification strategies. Here, we demonstrate that a simple and efficient postpolymerization modification procedure provides access to poly-(vinyl ether-

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interlayersplasticizer-free polymer designplasticizerspoly(vinyl butyral)-like polymerspostpolymerization modificationtunable hydroxyl content

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PMID42891214
PMCPMC13673908

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