Record release of tetramethylguanidine using a green light activated photocage for rapid synthesis of soft materials
Kun‐You Chung, Ain Uddin, Zachariah A. Page
Abstract
-nitrobenzyl and coumainylmethyl photocages, finding that the present BODIPY derivatives enable step-growth polymerizations that are >10× faster than the next best performing photocage. As a final demonstration, the inherent multifunctionality of the present BODIPY platform in releasing radicals from one half of the molecule and TMG from the other is leveraged to prepare polymers with starkly disparate physical properties. The present findings are anticipated to enable new applications of photocages in both small-molecule photochemistry for medicine and advanced manufacturing of next generation soft materials.
Topics & Concepts
BODIPYNanotechnologyPolymerizationCombinatorial chemistryRadicalChemistryPolymerMoleculeCharacterization (materials science)Materials scienceComputer sciencePhotochemistryOrganic chemistryFluorescenceQuantum mechanicsPhysicsPhotochromic and Fluorescence ChemistryLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics