Molecular Bottle Brushes with Positioned Selenols: Extending the Toolbox of Oxidative Single Polymer Chain Folding with Conformation Analysis by Atomic Force Microscopy

Organoselenium chemistry-based polymer synthesis

“…35,39 These selenium-containing polymers showed excellent thermostability and had a high refractive index up to 1.968 at 633 nm. In another work reported by Börner and Lutz, 40 the authors synthesized a sequence-controlled styrene/maleimide controlled radical polymerization platform, which was utilized to design polymers containing protected selenol fragments at precisely defined positions in the polymer chain. Then, the obtained selenium-containing polymer could be cyclized and allowed to undergo single-chain folding.…”

Synthesis and Applications of Organic Selenols

“…Organoselenium compounds include a wide variety of molecules with broad application in organic synthesis, materials science, medicinal chemistry, and biology. [1][2][3] A growing repertoire of selenium-containing small molecules have been employed as catalysts, ligands, and unconventional synthetic intermediates for the construction of complex structures. For example, the total syntheses of lycorine, [4] (À )-galanthamine, [5] (+)-deoxypancratistatin, [6] (À )-haliclonin A [7] rely on the use of organoselenium chemistry.…”

“…Organoselenium compounds include a wide variety of molecules with broad application in organic synthesis, materials science, medicinal chemistry, and biology [1–3] . A growing repertoire of selenium‐containing small molecules have been employed as catalysts, ligands, and unconventional synthetic intermediates for the construction of complex structures.…”