Polymer Chemistry, Volume 5, Issue 21-22, 2014

Issue 21

Thiol-Michael “click” chemistry: another efficient tool for head functionalization of giant surfactants

Yiwen Li, Hao Su, Xueyan Feng, Zhao Wang, Kai Guo, Chrys Wesdemiotis, Qiang Fu, Stephen Z. D. Cheng and Wen-Bin Zhang  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6151-6162 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY01103A

Chemical functionalization of emulsion-templated porous polymers by thiol–ene “click” chemistry

C. R. Langford, D. W. Johnson and N. R. Cameron  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6200-6206 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00713A 

Functional α,ω-dienes via thiol-Michael chemistry: synthesis, oxidative protection, acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization and radical thiol–ene modification

Johannes A. van Hensbergen, Taylor W. Gaines, Kenneth B. Wagener, Robert P. Burford and Andrew B. Lowe  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6225-6235 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00783B

Synthesis and photochemical properties of spiropyran graft and star polymers obtained by ‘click’ chemistry

Claudia Ventura, Paul Thornton, Silvia Giordani and Andreas Heise  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6318-6324 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00778F

Issue 22

Well-defined polyethylene molecular brushes by polyhomologation and ring opening metathesis polymerization

Hefeng Zhang, Yves Gnanou and Nikos Hadjichristidis  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6431-6434 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00815D 

Facile fabrication of ultrathin antibacterial hydrogel films via layer-by-layer “click” chemistry

Huan Wang, Guangyu Zha, Hong Du, Lilong Gao, Xiaodong Li, Zhiquan Shen and Weipu Zhu  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6489-6494 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00900B

Enhanced drug toxicity by conjugation of platinum drugs to polymers with guanidine containing zwitterionic functional groups that mimic cell-penetrating peptides

Khairil Juhanni Abd Karim, Robert H. Utama, Hongxu Lu and Martina H. Stenzel  

Polym. Chem., 2014, 5, 6600-6610 
DOI: 10.1039/C4PY00802B