Functional highly branched polymers from multicomponent polymerization (MCP) based on the ABC type Passerini reaction†
Abstract
A new synthetic approach to prepare functional highly branched polymers (HBPs) is demonstrated via the multicomponent polymerization (MCP) of easily accessible hexanedioic acid (A2), hexane-1,6-dial (B2), 1,6-diisocyanohexane (C2) and 10-undecenoic acid (A). Both the degree of branching (DB) and the degree of additional functionalization (DF) were regulated by simply varying the ratio of A2 to A.