The advancement in the field of living and controlled polymerization techniques provides the opportunity for careful bottom-up design of polymers for biomedical applications according to their specific needs. This contribution describes the detailed methodology to functionalize poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline), a polymer with properties very similar to polyethylene glycol, in a stereo-selective manner with a range of carbohydrates that can serve as biological targeting units. The obtained building blocks can subsequently be applied for the synthesis of more complex polymeric architectures.
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Weber, C., Gottschaldt, M., Hoogenboom, R., & Schubert, U. S. (2016). Carbohydrate-based initiators for the cationic ring-opening polymerization of 2-ethyl-2-oxazoline. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1367, pp. 49–59). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3130-9_5
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