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Critical Review
Article citation: Patricia L. Golas, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2010, DOI: 10.1039/b901978m
Marrying click chemistry with polymerization: expanding the scope of polymeric materials
Patricia L. Golas and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Click chemistry constitutes a class of reactions broadly characterized by efficiency, selectivity, and tolerance to a variety of solvents and functional groups. By far the most widely utilized of these efficient transformation reactions is the CuI-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition. This reaction has been creatively employed to facilitate the preparation of complex macromolecules, such as multiblock copolymers, shell or core cross-linked micelles, and dendrimers. This critical review highlights the application of click chemistry, in particular the CuI-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition, to the synthesis of a wide variety of new materials with possible uses as drug delivery agents, tissue engineering scaffolds, and dispersible nanomaterials (83 references).
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