title: Macrocyclic depolymerization of arylene-ethynylene copolymers: a dynamic combinatorial method.
abstract: A dynamic combinatorial approach for the synthesis of arylene ethynylene macrocycles (AEMs) from linear polymers is described. By using readily available carbazolyl-ethynylene copolymers as starting materials we obtained a number of novel macrocycles that would be difficult to prepare by traditional methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Dustin E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Discekici
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Moore