Inside Cover: Interconvertible Living Radical and Cationic Polymerization through Reversible Activation of Dormant Species with Dual Activity (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 41/2014)

Abstract

Two monomers can be copolymerized by a new method via different intermediates into a single polymer chain. In their Communication on page 10932 ff., K. Satoh, M. Kamigaito, and co-workers present interconvertable radical and cationic copolymerization of vinyl ether and acrylate by dual reversible activation of dormant thioesters with a radical species and a Lewis acid. A controlled multiblock copolymer comprising radically and cationically polymerized segments could be prepared.