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An air-stable supported Cu(І) catalyst for azide-alkyne click polymerization

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An air-stable supported Cu(I) catalyst, CuI@PS-Phen, was designed and synthesized. CuI@PS-Phen can efficiently catalyze the click polymerization of diynes a and diazides b to produce soluble and thermally stable polytriazoles with high molecular weights (M w up to 30800), and low copper residue content (down to 190 ppm) in high yields (up to 94.2%) under mild reaction conditions without the exclusion of oxygen.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Ministry of Education; Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Haiqiang Wu, Wenhui Dong, Zongtan Wang, Bicheng Yao, Ming Chen, Jingzhi Sun, Anjun Qin & Ben Zhong Tang

  2. Guangdong Innovative Research Team, State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, China

    Anjun Qin & Ben Zhong Tang

  3. Department of Chemistry, Institute for Advanced Study, Institute of Molecular Functional Materials, and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Ben Zhong Tang

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Wu, H., Dong, W., Wang, Z. et al. An air-stable supported Cu(І) catalyst for azide-alkyne click polymerization. Sci. China Chem. 58, 1748–1752 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-015-5475-x

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