title: Exploiting the tetrazine-norbornene reaction for single polymer chain collapse.
abstract: Single chain polymer nanoparticles (SCNPs) have been formed using polystyrenes decorated with pendent norbornenes and a bifunctional tetrazine crosslinker. Characterisation by size exclusion chromatography and (1)H NMR gives evidence for the formation of SCNPs by the tetrazine-norbornene reaction, whilst light scattering, neutron scattering, transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy show that discrete well-defined nanoparticles are formed and their size in solution calculated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Reilly@warwick.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Claire F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Hansell
authors.forename: Annhelen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Joseph P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.forename: Rachel K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
mesh_terms: D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D009636:Norbornanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D009636:Norbornanes; D011108:Polymers