A straightforward synthesis of well‐defined difluorophosphonylated terminated poly(ε‐caprolactone) for grafting onto iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles

Phosphonate-Functionalized Polycarbonates Synthesis through Ring-Opening Polymerization and Alternative Approaches

“…To address this issue, there are a few examples of the synthesis of phosphonate-containing biodegradable polymers. For example, Ho and coworkers have reported the simple synthesis of well-defined phosphonate-terminated poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) using the organocatalyzed ring-opening polymerization (ROP) technique and phosphonate-containing hydroxyl molecule as the initiator [ 12 ]. Using a similar strategy, other phosphonate-terminated biodegradable polymers such as polylactide (PLA) and polycarbonate (PC) were also successfully synthesized [ 13 , 14 ].…”