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Macromolecules made to order

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Mastering how to completely control the exact monomer sequence of synthetic polymers is the ultimate key for establishing true biomimetic macromolecular chemistry. A versatile one-pot approach for the synthesis of well-defined multiblock copolymers with short block lengths offers another approach on the road towards this lofty goal.

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Figure 1: Different approaches for the preparation of sequence-controlled polymers.

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  1. Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt and Christopher Barner-Kowollik are in the Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 18, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany and the Institut für Biologische Grenzflächen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany,

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Schmidt, B., Barner-Kowollik, C. Macromolecules made to order. Nature Chem 5, 990–992 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1806

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