title: A triple carboxylic acid-functionalized RAFT agent platform for the elaboration of well-defined telechelic 3-arm star PDMAc.
abstract: This communication describes the synthesis of a triple acid-functionalized RAFT agent and its use to prepare well-defined 3-arm star polymers of N,N-dimethylacrylamide (DMAc). A simple esterification reaction allowed the convenient integration of three electron-rich naphthalene recognition units on the RAFT agent platform and subsequently the elaboration of a naphthalene end-decorated telechelic 3-arm star PDMAc. This functionalized star polymer was further exploited to build a hydrogel with a complementary homoditopic host unit featuring tetracationic macrocycle cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) units.
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8232, IPCM, Chimie des Polymères, 75005 Paris, France. francois.stoffelbach@upmc.fr and Université de Lille, ENSCL, Unité des Matériaux et Transformations, UMR CNRS 8207, Equipe Ingénierie des Systèmes Polymères (ISP), 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Belal
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8232, IPCM, Chimie des Polymères, 75005 Paris, France. francois.stoffelbach@upmc.fr.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Poitras-Jolicoeur
authors.affiliation: Université de Lille, ENSCL, Unité des Matériaux et Transformations, UMR CNRS 8207, Equipe Ingénierie des Systèmes Polymères (ISP), 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lyskawa
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8232, IPCM, Chimie des Polymères, 75005 Paris, France. francois.stoffelbach@upmc.fr.
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authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pembouong
authors.affiliation: Glasgow Centre for Physical Organic Chemistry, WestCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cooke
authors.affiliation: Université de Lille, ENSCL, Unité des Matériaux et Transformations, UMR CNRS 8207, Equipe Ingénierie des Systèmes Polymères (ISP), 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Woisel
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 8232, IPCM, Chimie des Polymères, 75005 Paris, France. francois.stoffelbach@upmc.fr.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Stoffelbach