Modifications of Polymeric Materials Using Click Chemistry

Dear Colleagues,

In the twenty years since Sharpless and coworkers introduced the term “click” chemistry, a plethora of modular, high-yielding, atom economical, and green transformations have been developed and added to the click toolbox. These creative synthetic methodologies have expanded the synthetic repertoire far beyond the prototypical copper-catalysed azide/alkyne cycloaddition and have proven extremely useful for the formation of both C-C and C-heteroatom bonds in all areas of chemistry. However, nowhere else has their utility been exploited more so than in the field of polymer chemistry. This Special Issue celebrates the marriage between click chemistry and polymer science, in which these special reactions have been used extensively for the modification of macromolecular materials (both synthetic and natural) using both pre- and postpolymerization functionalization routes to lead to materials that have found applications for a seemingly infinite number of applications.

Dr. Christopher E. Hobbs
Guest Editor

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• click chemistry
• polymerization
• green chemistry
• postpolymerization modification
• thiol-X, CuAAC
• thiol-ene
• cycloadditions