The Fast and the Curious: High-Throughput Experimentation in Synthetic Polymer Chemistry

Hoogenboom, Richard; Schubert, Ulrich S.

Abstract:

The application of automated synthetic parallel methods in polymer chemistry is described. A brief overview of all different polymerization techniques that have been used is provided. Furthermore, the equipment and methodologies that were used in our approach for automated parallel polymerization reactions are discussed followed by detailed insight into recent developments on automated cationic ring-opening polymerization, atom transfer radical polymerization, and emulsion polymerizations.

Year:

2003

Type of Publication:

Article

Keywords:

automated parallel synthesis; high throughput experimentation; living polymerization; atom transfer radical polymerization ATRP; emulsion polymerization

Journal:

Journal of Polymer Science: Part A: Polymer Chemistry

Volume:

41

Pages:

2425 – 2434