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Bifunctional Aziridines from Photochemically Generated FSO 2 NH 2 for SuFEx Diversification of Alkenes Open

Avinash Choudhury, Quentin Michaudel · 2025

Sulfonyl fluorides have emerged as ubiquitous reactive motifs in fields ranging from medicinal chemistry to materials science, with applications as chemical warheads and as clickable units via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx). However,…

Bifunctional Aziridines from Photochemically Generated FSO 2 NH 2 for SuFEx Diversification of Alkenes Open

Avinash Choudhury, Zakary B. Newman, Quentin Michaudel · 2025

Sulfonyl fluorides have emerged as ubiquitous reactive motifs in fields ranging from medicinal chemistry to materials science, with applications as chemical warheads and as clickable units via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx). However,…

Bifunctional Aziridines from Photochemically Generated FSO2NH2 for SuFEx Diversification of Alkenes Open

Avinash Choudhury, V. Prabhakar, Zakary B. Newman, Quentin Michaudel · 2025

Sulfonyl fluorides have emerged as ubiquitous reactive motifs in fields ranging from medicinal chemistry to materials science, with applications as chemical warheads and as clickable units via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx). However,…

Polysulfamates as “Macroisosteres” of Polyurethanes with Improved Degradability Open

Srutashini Das, Katarzyna Doktor, Biswajit Saha, Felipe Cesar Sousa e Silva, Rachel M. Wynn , et al. · 2025

Addressing the environmental persistence of plastics requires the development of next‐generation polymers that combine high performance with enhanced degradability. Progress toward this grand challenge has been impeded, in part, by the abs…

Polysulfamates as “Macroisosteres” of Polyurethanes with Improved Degradability Open

Srutashini Das, Katarzyna Doktor, Biswajit Saha, Felipe Cesar Sousa e Silva, Rachel M. Wynn , et al. · 2025

Addressing the environmental persistence of plastics requires the development of next‐generation polymers that combine high performance with enhanced degradability. Progress toward this grand challenge has been impeded, in part, by the abs…

Polysulfamates as “Macroisosteres” of Polyurethanes with Improved Degradability Open

Srutashini Das, Katarzyna Doktor, Biswajit Saha, Felipe Cesar Sousa e Silva, Rachel M. Wynn , et al. · 2025

Addressing the environmental persistence of plastics requires the development of next-generation polymers that combine high performance with enhanced degradability. Progress toward this grand challenge have been impeded, in part, by the ab…

Telechelic all- cis polycyclooctene via catalytic stereoretentive ROMP for the synthesis of polylactide-based ABA triblock copolymers Open

Jake L. Nicholson, Antoine C Gravet, Quentin Michaudel · 2025

A stereoretentive catalytic ring-opening metathesis polymerization delivers well-controlled telechelic all- cis polycyclooctene for the synthesis of polylactide-based ABA triblock copolymers.

Radical Sorting as a General Framework for Deaminative C(sp3)–C(sp2) Cross-Coupling Open

Deepta Chattapadhyay, Enke Liu, Mark Jeffrey Diaz, Arunava Maity, Benjamin A. Bratten , et al. · 2025

Radical-based transition-metal-catalyzed cross-couplings are invaluable tools in synthetic medicinal chemistry. Although carboxylic acids are now routinely used as radical precursors, an equally abundant class of building blocks—aliphatic …

A Unified Synthesis of Diazenes from Primary Amines Using a SuFEx/Electrochemistry Strategy Open

Katarzyna Doktor, Julien C. Vantourout, Quentin Michaudel · 2024

The electrochemical synthesis of 1,2-disubsituted diazenes via anodic oxidation of bench stable symmetrical and unsymmetrical sulfamides is reported. This work capitalizes on the streamlined preparation of diverse N,N'-disubs…

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Ester Tetraazaadamantane, Hammett, Joseph Krumpfer, Andrew Dove, Craig J. Hawker , et al. · 2024

The cover image by Simon van Hurne depicts the formation of a dynamic covalent boronate-TetraAzaADamantane bond, which could be integrated in a covalent adaptable network.As a result of the on-going dynamic bond exchange reactions within t…

Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of All-cis and All-trans Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) Open

Haraprasad Mandal, Olusayo J. Ogunyemi, Jake L. Nicholson, Meghan Orr, Rémy F. Lalisse , et al. · 2024

Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV) is a staple of the family of conjugated polymers with desirable optoelectronic properties for applications including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photovoltaic devices. Although the significant imp…

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Gregory B. McKenna, Cevin Braksch, Anne‐Catherine Lehnen, Alain M. Bapolisi, Johannes Gurke , et al. · 2023

POLYMERIC MICELLES; POLYMERSOMESThe cover by Eleonora G. Hochreiner represents the process of polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) toward pharmaceutical application.Starting from the bottom right with the initial building blocks (hy…

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization of N -methylpyridinium-fused norbornenes to access antibacterial main-chain cationic polymers Open

Sarah N. Hancock, Nattawut Yuntawattana, Emily Diep, Arunava Maity, A T Tran , et al. · 2023

Cationic polymers have been identified as a promising type of antibacterial molecules, whose bioactivity can be tuned through structural modulation. Recent studies suggest that the placement of the cationic groups close to the core of the …

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P. Ponmani, Jitendra Bahadur, Chetna Tewari, Kumar Deepak, Uddhab Gupta , et al. · 2023

Polyaniline modified waste-derived graphene

Investigating the Hydrogen Bond-Induced Self-Assembly of Polysulfamides Using Molecular Simulations and Experiments Open

Zijie Wu, Jiun Wei Wu, Quentin Michaudel, Arthi Jayaraman · 2023

In this paper, we present a synergistic, experimental, and computational study of the self-assembly of N,N'-disubstituted polysulfamides driven by hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) between the H-bonding donor and acceptor groups prese…

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Carlos Fitzgerald, Grandes Reyes, Sung Min Ha, Kyoung Heon Kim, Aijuan Gu , et al. · 2023

The dynamic assembly of the hydrogen-bonded multilayers of (poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone/ poly(methacrylic acid)) leads to much faster deposition of planar films with larger thickness and roughness compared to the static films.The release of th…

cis -Selective Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization of α , ω -Dienes Open

Samuel J. Kempel, Ting-Wei Hsu, Jake L. Nicholson, Quentin Michaudel · 2023

The cis/trans stereochemistry of repeating alkenes in polymers provides a powerful handle to modulate the thermal and mechanical properties of these soft materials, but synthetic methods to precisely dictate this parameter re…

Harnessing Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange Click Chemistry and Photocatalysis for Deaminative Benzylic Arylation Open

Deepta Chattapadhyay, Akın Aydoğan, Katarzyna Doktor, Arunava Maity, Jiun Wei Wu , et al. · 2023

While among the most common functional handles present in organic molecules, amines are a widely underutilized linchpin for C-C bond formation. To facilitate C-N bond cleavage, large activating groups are typically used but result in the g…

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Mayank Jain, Zeynep Mutlu, Jiahao Mao, Jierui Zhou, Chao Wu , et al. · 2023

In celebration of his 67th birthday, this special issue of the Journal of Polymer Science honors the many accomplishments, outstanding career and impactful legacy of Professor Takuzo Aida.Professor Aida's contribution to the advancement of…

Harnessing Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange Click Chemistry and Photocatalysis for Deaminative Benzylic Arylation Open

Deepta Chattapadhyay, Akın Aydoğan, Katarzyna Doktor, Arunava Maity, Jiun Wei Wu , et al. · 2023

While among the most common functional handles present in organic molecules, amines are a widely underutilized linchpin for C–C bond formation. To facilitate C–N bond cleavage, large activating groups are typically used but result in the g…

cis-Selective Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization of α, ω-Dienes Open

Samuel J. Kempel, Ting-Wei Hsu, Jake L. Nicholson, Quentin Michaudel · 2023

The cis/trans (Z/E) stereochemistry of repeating alkenes in polymers provides a powerful handle to modulate the thermal and mechanical properties of these soft materials, but synthetic methods to precisely dictate this parameter remain sca…

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Sheng Du, Zichen Li, J. F. Shangguan, Yanglei Zheng, Junyi Jiang , et al. · 2023

The paper of J. Radicke et al. reports on the solubility of cellulose -a chiral polymer -in six different ionic liquids (IL) at room temperature.The ILs are basesd on imidazolium and 1,2,3triazolium cations, respectively, and lactates as c…

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Julian Radicke, Eliane Roos, Daniel Sebastiani, Martin Brehm, Jörg Kreßler , et al. · 2023

DOPAMINE, ENHANCED ADHESIVENESSThe dopamine-functionalized polymers exhibited great potential for various applications.The study on page 223 from Jianhua Zhang and colleagues of Tianjin University reports a facile and versatile strategy to…

Synthesis of Degradable Polysulfamides via Sulfur(VI) Fluoride Exchange Click Polymerization of AB-Type Monomers Open

Jiun Wei Wu, Ryan W. Kulow, McKenna J. Redding, Alexander J. Fine, Scott M. Grayson , et al. · 2023

Polysulfamides are the -SO₂- analogues of polyureas and form an intriguing family of polymers containing hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor groups. However, unlike polyureas, their physical properties are mostly unknown because of…

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Heyi Liang, Kenji Yoshimoto, Masahiro Kitabata, Umi Yamamoto, Juan Pablo , et al. · 2022

The high cost of commercial ion-exchange membranes often hinders their application at the industrial scale.The study on page 2984 from Laurent Bazinet and colleagues aims at fabricating low-cost cation-coated filtration membranes (CCFMs) a…

Stereocontrolled acyclic diene metathesis polymerization Open

Ting-Wei Hsu, Samuel J. Kempel, Alyssa P. Felix Thayne, Quentin Michaudel · 2022

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Jiraya Kiriratnikom, Xun Zhang, Xiao‐Han Cao, Bo Chu, Chengjian Zhang , et al. · 2022

EXCHANGE MEMBRANES, CONDUCTIVITY, DENDRONSThe microphase separation of anion exchange membranes (AEMs) plays a critical role in constructing ion-conducting channels.The cover image, submitted by Yuanqin Zhu and colleagues for the article o…

Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Pyridinonorbornenes Synthesized from 2,3-Pyridynes Open

Sarah N. Hancock, Nattawut Yuntawattana, Sara M. Valdez, Quentin Michaudel · 2022

Pyridine-containing polymers are promising materials for a variety of applications from the capture of contaminants to the self-assembly of block copolymers. However, the coordinative ability and the innate basicity of the pyridine motif d…

Stereocontrolled Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization Open

Ting-Wei Hsu, Samuel J. Kempel, Alyssa Felix Thayne, Quentin Michaudel · 2022

The cis/trans geometry of olefins is known to dramatically influence the thermal and mechanical properties of polyalkenamers. Yet, polymerization methods that allow the practitioner to efficiently control this parameter are scarce. Herein,…

Expedient synthesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerization of pyridinonorbornenes Open

Sarah N. Hancock, Nattawut Yuntawattana, Sara M. Valdez, Quentin Michaudel · 2022

Pyridinonorbornenes, a unique family of ROMP monomers, were synthesized via the intermediacy of 2,3-pyridynes. Modulation of the steric hindrance about the nitrogen allowed a living ROMP process and the production of polymers with high T g…

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