Abstract
Enzymes, their cofactors as well as enzyme mimetics can catalyze atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP). Catalysts for this bioATRP are heme enzymes such as horseradish peroxidase, hemoglobin, and catalase, as well as the copper-containing laccases. Moreover, hemin, PEGylated hemin, heme-peptide conjugates, and single-chain polymer nanoparticles have been explored as ATRP catalysts. This chapter reviews biocatalytic ATRP as well as biocatalytically initiated RAFT polymerizations, and shows how "ATRPases" and other biologically derived catalysts are used, e.g., to tune well-controlled surface-initiated polymerizations, to confine ATRP into nanoreactors, and to prepare non-viral gene vectors or biosensors.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization |
Subtitle of host publication | Mechanisms and Synthetic Methodologies |
Editors | Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Haifeng Gao, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Brent S. Sumerlin |
Publisher | American Chemical Society |
Pages | 379-393 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Volume | 1284 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780841233188 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Publication series
Name | ACS Symposium Series |
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Volume | 1284 |
ISSN (Print) | 0097-6156 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1947-5918 |
Funding
This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation through the projects PP00P2_144697 and PP00P2_172927.
Keywords
- enzymes
- free radical reactions
- living polymerization
- porphyrins
- atom transfer radical polymerization
- enzyme mimetics
- lipases