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HERO ID
7636285
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Dye-labelled polymer chains at specific sites: Synthesis by living/controlled polymerization
Author(s)
Beija, M; Charreyre, MT; Martinho, JMG; ,
Year
2011
Is Peer Reviewed?
1
Journal
Progress in Polymer Science
ISSN:
0079-6700
Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Location
OXFORD
Page Numbers
568-602
DOI
10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2010.06.004
Web of Science Id
WOS:000289130400002
URL
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0079670010000687
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Abstract
Dye-labelled polymer chains are extremely useful in many fields, such as optical imaging, signal amplification in biological diagnostics, light-harvesting and photochromic materials as well as in fluorescence studies about intra- and inter-molecular polymer chain associations, conformations and dynamics of polymer chains. However, in many cases, it is particularly useful that the dye is localized at a specific site, such as the chain-end or the junction between blocks. With the development of living/controlled polymerization techniques, end- and junction-functionalized polymers can be prepared with controlled molecular weights from a huge variety of monomers. This review highlights the state of the art in the strategies leading to one and only one precisely localized dye per polymer chain. Such dye can be introduced at three different steps of the polymerization: i) at the very beginning via the initiator or a chain transfer agent, ii) during polymerization via a functional monomer or a quencher, or iii) after polymerization via covalent binding of a dye-derivative. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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