Miktoarm Amphiphilic Block Copolymer with Singlet Oxygen-Labile Stereospecific β-Aminoacrylate Junction: Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Photodynamically Triggered Drug Release

Autor: Dae Heon Kim, Gurusamy Saravanakumar, Jinhwan Kim, Hyeongmok Park, Won Jong Kim, Swapan Pramanick, Dongsik Park
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Biomacromolecules. 19:2202-2213
ISSN: 1526-4602
1525-7797
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.8b00290
Popis: Incorporation of a desired stimuli-responsive unit in a stereospecific manner at the specific location within a nonlinear block copolymer architecture is a challenging task in synthetic polymer chemistry. Herein, we report a facile and versatile method to synthesize AB2 miktoarm block copolymers bearing a singlet oxygen (1O2)-labile regio and stereospecific β-aminoacrylate linkage with 100% E-configuration at the junction via a combination of amino-yne click chemistry and ring opening polymerization. Using this strategy, a series of 1O2-responsive AB2 amphiphilic miktoarm (MA) copolymers composed of hydrophilic polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the A constituent and hydrophobic polycaprolactone (PCL) as the B constituent (MA-PEG-b-PCL2) was synthesized by varying the block length of PCL. The self-assembly characteristics of these well-defined MA-PEG-b-PCL2 copolymers in an aqueous condition were studied by solvent displacement and thin-film hydration method, and their morphologies were investigated using trans...
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