title: Combining living anionic polymerization with branching reactions in an iterative fashion to design branched polymers.
abstract: This paper reviews the precise synthesis of many-armed and multi-compositional star-branched polymers, exact graft (co)polymers, and structurally well-defined dendrimer-like star-branched polymers, which are synthetically difficult, by a commonly-featured iterative methodology combining living anionic polymerization with branched reactions to design branched polymers. The methodology basically involves only two synthetic steps; (a) preparation of a polymeric building block corresponding to each branched polymer and (b) connection of the resulting building unit to another unit. The synthetic steps were repeated in a stepwise fashion several times to successively synthesize a series of well-defined target branched polymers.
authors: Polymeric and Organic Materials Department, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, H-127, 2-12-1 Ohokayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.
authors: Tomoya
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authors: Higashihara
authors: Kenji
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authors: Sugiyama
authors: Hee-Soo
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authors: Yoo
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authors: Hayashi
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