Thomas P. Davis

TL;DR: A modification of a polymeric activated ester with sugar-amines and a simultaneous aminolysis-thiol-ene reaction involving the RAFT end-groups yield biotin functionalized glycopolymer in one-pot.

TL;DR: The overall results suggest that the well-defined PDSM homopolymer scaffold generated via RAFT polymerization can be a versatile building block for generation of new structures having potential for drug delivery applications via a straightforward synthetic approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis of polystyrene-block-poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) via RAFT polymerization was investigated in detail, and two different RAFT agents - benzyl dithiobenzoate and 3-(benzylsulfanylthiocarbonylsufanyl) propionic acid, were employed to prepare poly styrene macroRAFT agents with molecular weights varying between 3000 gmol-1 and 62,000 g mol-1, and polydispersities between 1.2-1.4

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed effective methods for treatment of RAFT-made polymers to cleave the thiocarbonylthio end-groups postpolymerization.

TL;DR: The tendency of electron-deficient dithioesters to undergo hetero Diels-Alder cycloadditions is successfully used to generate polymer conjugates between a RAFT-polymerized poly(styrene) and a diene-terminated poly(epsilon-caprolactone).