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Aliphatic polyesters are among the most important class of synthetic polymers for applications in biology due to their biodegradability. However, such polyesters are typically semicrystalline, hydrophobic solids lacking in functionality, such that strategic tailoring of their structure and functionality carries the potential to expand their application base to a wide variety of particular applications. Various synthetic methods have been explored for introducing functional groups into aliphatic polyesters. This chapter will describe a number of these methods reported in the past several years, focusing primarily on examples of controlled ring-opening polymerization of functionalized lactones, and post-polymerization functionalization well-defined materials with controlled end-groups and narrow polydispersities. |
