title: Microwave-assisted cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-oxazolines.
abstract: Unlike any other polymer class, the (co-)poly(2-oxazoline)s have tremendously benefited from the introduction of microwave reactors into chemical laboratories. This review focuses on the research activities in the area of (co-)poly(2-oxazoline)s prepared by microwave-assisted syntheses and, correspondingly, summarizes the current-state-of the-art of the microwave-assisted synthesis of 2-oxazoline monomers and the microwave-assisted ring-opening (co-)polymerization of 2-oxazolines as well as prominent examples of post-polymerization modification of (co-)poly(2-oxazoline)s. Special attention is attributed to the kinetic analysis of the microwave-assisted polymerization of 2-oxazolines and the discussion of non-thermal microwave effects.
authors.affiliation: Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Roseggerstrasse 12, 8700 Leoben, Austria; Graz University of Technology, Institute for Chemistry and Technology of Materials, NAWI Graz, Stremayrgasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Klaus P
authors.initials: KP
authors.lastname: Luef
authors.affiliation: Supramolecular Chemistry Group, Department of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281 S4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoogenboom
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstrasse 10, 07743 Jena, Germany; Jena Center for Soft Matter (JCSM), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7, 07743 Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich S
authors.initials: US
authors.lastname: Schubert
authors.affiliation: Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH, Roseggerstrasse 12, 8700 Leoben, Austria.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wiesbrock
keywords: microwave-assisted polymerization; non-thermal microwave effects; poly(2-oxazoline); post-polymerization modification; ring-opening polymerization