@inbook{d123d3ed62fe49db8d7145b688ff9d0d,
title = "Biocatalytic ATRP: controlled radical polymerizations mediated by enzymes",
abstract = "The advent of controlled radical polymerizations has made polymer science a key discipline for the preparation of nano-, biomedical-, and high tech-materials. Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is one of the most widely applied controlled radical polymerization. However, an ongoing quest is to develop ATRP reaction conditions that allow reducing the amount of catalyst needed, or to replace the currently used transition metal complex catalysts with less toxic ones. Using enzymes as catalysts is a classic strategy in the green chemistry approach, and many enzymatic polymerizations are known. However, controlled radical polymerizations that are catalyzed by enzymes or proteins were not known until our discovery that the metalloproteins horseradish peroxidase and hemoglobin can polymerize vinyl-monomers under conditions of activators regenerated by electron transfer (ARGET) ATRP. In this book chapter, we review the emerging field of biocatalytic ATRP.",
keywords = "enzymatic polymerization, catalysts, enzymes, free radical polymerization, functional polymers, metal complexes, proteins, transition metal compounds, atom transfer radical polymerization, green chemistry approaches",
author = "Kasper Renggli and Mariana Spulber and Jonas Pollard and Martin Rother and Nico Bruns",
year = "2013",
month = "1",
day = "1",
doi = "10.1021/bk-2013-1144.ch012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780841228955",
volume = "1144",
series = "ACS Symposium Series",
publisher = "American Chemical Society",
pages = "163--171",
booktitle = "Green Polymer Chem",
address = "United States",
}