In this article, we performed dehydration polycondensation of bromosuccinic acid and methylsuccinic acid with 1,4-butanediol at 80 1C to synthesize aliphatic polyesters containing pendent bromo groups without dehydrobromination using scandium trifluoromethanesulfonate (Sc(OTf) 3 ) as the catalyst. Azidation of the resultant polyesters was carried out readily in N,Ndimethylformamide at room temperature using sodium azide (M n ¼8.3Â10 3 (M w /M n ¼2.17)). 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of the product revealed that 65% contained azide functionality, and dehydrobromination occurred in 35% during the azidation process. On the other hand, azidation of poly(butylene bromoadipate-co-butylene methylsuccinate) (poly(BBA-co-BMS)) proceeded successfully under the same conditions to generate poly(butylene azidoadipate-co-butylene methylsuccinate) (poly(BAA-co-BMS)) without dehydrobromination (M n ¼10.4Â10 3 (M w /M n ¼2.71)). We successfully photo-crosslinked the resultant azidopolyester by ultraviolet irradiation and examined it using scanning electron microscope. We also described azidation of polyesters having pendent hydroxyl groups by using the 'DPPA (diphenylphosphoryl azide)-DBU (1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene) substitution strategy' to produce water-soluble polyesters containing pendent azido groups (M n ¼7.5Â10 3 (M w /M n ¼2.25)). These azidopolyesters might be extremely useful not only for their derivatization by simple chemical modification but also for their effective utilization as photolithography material.