Metal free thiol–maleimide ‘Click’ reaction as a mild functionalisation strategy for degradable polymers
- 29 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 41,p. 5158-5160
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b809167f
Abstract
The stoichiometric reaction between thiols and maleimide-functional poly(ester)s is demonstrated to be a quantitative, tolerant, mild and efficient method for polymer modification.Keywords
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