Synfacts 2010(2): 0169-0169  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1219089
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Poly-Chirality

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager
N. Nakagaki, T. Uno, M. Kabo, T. Itoh*
Mie University, Japan
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 January 2010 (online)

Significance

There are few stereoselective polymer syntheses that give rise to highly chiral materials. This publication reports a controlled anionic polymerization that gives a chiral polymer under controlled conditions that appear to conform to what might be called a living polymerization.