Versatile functionalization and grafting of poly(ε-caprolactone) by Michael-type addition

24 November 2004

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications

No. 2,p. 274-276
https://doi.org/10.1039/b411565a

Abstract

The Michael-type addition of aliphatic (co)polyesters onto γ-acryloyloxy ε-caprolactone units is a very straightforward technique of functionalization and grafting, which is tolerant to a variety of functional groups and does not require intermediate protection/deprotection steps.

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