Polymer coupling via hetero-disulfide exchange and its applications to rewritable polymer brushes

• Main Authors: Sim, Xuan Ming, Chen, Chen, Goto, Atsushi
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Science::Chemistry::Organic chemistry::Polymers; Polymer Brush; Rewritable Surface
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153602
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An iodide-terminated polymer (Polymer-I) is converted to a thiol-terminated polymer (Polymer-SH) using HSCH2CH2SH in a remarkably short time (10 min). Polymer-SH is further converted to a pyridyl disulfide-terminated polymer (Polymer-SS-Py). The hetero-coupling of Polymer-SH and Polymer-SS-Py is suc...