A Major Step Towards Programmable Polymer Chemistry

Thanks to a new synthesis method, Dr Jean-François Lutz and his colleague Ranajit Barman at ISIS have succeeded in controlling with absolute precision the way a polymer chain is built, in particular the spatial orientation of its constituent units, the monomers. This tour de force opens access to billions of structures with unprecedented properties that were previously unattainable.

This decisive step toward a polymer chemistry as programmable as the genetic code was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (the article can be found on https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c15603).

To learn more about this breakthrough: https://www.inc.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/des-polymeres-de-synthese-la-stereochimie-sur-mesure