************ The 12th Lab Seminar **************************************

Title : Polymer Synthesis in Coordination Nanospaces
(Uemura, T. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan 2011, 84, 1169-
1177).

Speaker : Takayanagi Masayoshi

Date : Thu. Dec. 20th, 1:30 pm

Abstract :
In nature, biopolymers are efficiently synthesized by multilevel arrange-
ments of monomers within constrained molecular-level spaces. These bio-
logical systems produce regio- and stereoregular polymers with uniform 
molecular weights, and can also arrange the higher order structures of 
the resulting polymers. Inspired by the elegant operations of polymerization 
in biological systems, polymer synthesis in artificial confined geometries 
is a promising strategy for thecontrol of polymer primary structures and 
the design of well-defined nanostructures. Recently, we have established 
a new methodology for controlling polymer synthesis using microporous 
coordination compounds. In this account, recent progress and future 
perspectives of polymerizations in these coordination nanospaces are 
reviewed.


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