title: Radical Ring-Opening Polymerization: Scope, Limitations, and Application to (Bio)Degradable Materials.
abstract: Cyclic monomers bearing either vinyl or exomethylene groups have the ability to be polymerized through a radical pathway via a ring-opening mechanism (addition-fragmentation process), leading to the introduction of functionalities in the polymer backbone. Radical ring-opening polymerization (rROP) combines the advantages of both ring-opening polymerization and radical polymerization, that is the preparation of polymers bearing heteroatoms in the backbone but with the ease and robustness of a radical process. This current review presents a comprehensive description of rROP by detailing: (i) the various monomers that polymerize through rROP; (ii) the main parameters that govern the rROP mechanism; (iii) the copolymerization by conventional or controlled/living radical polymerization between rROP monomers and traditional vinyl monomers to obtain copolymers with advanced properties; (iv) the different applications (low shrinkage materials and preparation of (bio)degradable materials) of rROP monomer-containing materials, and (v) the main alternatives to rROP to induce degradability to materials obtained by a radical polymerization.
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, campus Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Case 542, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
authors.forename: Antoine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tardy
authors.affiliation: Institut Galien Paris-Sud , UMR CNRS 8612, Univ Paris-Sud, Faculté de Pharmacie, 5 rue Jean-Baptiste Clément, F-92296 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nicolas
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, campus Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Case 542, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gigmes
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, campus Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Case 542, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lefay
authors.affiliation: Aix Marseille Univ , CNRS, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, campus Saint Jérôme, Avenue Escadrille Normandie-Niemen, Case 542, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France.
authors.forename: Yohann
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Guillaneuf
mesh_terms: D015394:Molecular Structure; D058105:Polymerization