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Polyanhydride Synthesis

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Synonyms

Condensation polymers; Ring-opening polymerization

Definition

Polyanhydrides are a class of polymers where the linkages between repeat units are anhydride bonds (Fig. 1).

Polyanhydride Synthesis, Fig. 1
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Chemical structure of polyanhydride repeat unit

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA

    Stéphan Bien-Aimé & Kathryn Uhrich

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  1. Stéphan Bien-Aimé
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Correspondence to Kathryn Uhrich .

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Bien-Aimé, S., Uhrich, K. (2015). Polyanhydride Synthesis. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_373

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