📄️ Direct Arylation polymerisation
In the polymer community, DArP is considered to be the eco-friendly alternative for polymer synthesis. In conventional coupling reactions such as Stille and Suzuki methods, excessive prefunctionalisation of monomers with boranes or stananes are required. This requires lagre amounts of solvents to run multiple columns as well as harsh reaction conditions, all in turn resulting in a poor atomic efficiency.[1, 2]
📄️ Reverse Deactivated Radial Polymerisations (RDRP)
Advances in polymer synthesis provide a means to fine-tune the properties of macromolecules by varying the size, shape, chemical composition and architecture. The invention of commonly used reversible-deactivation radical polymerisations (RDRPs) including RAFT (reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer) polymerisation, ATRP (atom-transfer radical polymerisation) and NMP (nitroxide-mediated polymerisation) began over 20 years ago and has significantly increased the chemoselectivity of reactions; thus, RDRP allows the use of more complex and functional monomers. However, the main disadvantage of RDRPs is that extremely high molecular weights are difficult to achieve with narrow dispersity because early termination reactions may occur.