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Polymer synthesis

Facilitating functionality

Monomers that contain masked ketene groups provide new opportunities for facile crosslinking and post-synthetic modification of polymers in a wide variety of materials applications.

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Figure 1: Masked ketenes in the production of polymers for general materials applications.

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Rimmer, S. Facilitating functionality. Nature Chem 2, 164–165 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.563

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