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Multicomponent Click Reaction for Carbon
Nanotube/Polymer Complex
L. Tao, B. Yang, Y. Zhao
Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Email: leitao@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Abstract
Looking at ‘old’ reactions from different perspective can sometimes bring new break-through
in ‘new’ research fields. Recently, our group reassessed multicomponent reactions (MCRs)
from the angle of click reaction, and developed a new type click reaction: multicomponent
click (MCC) reaction, i.e. some highly efficient and atom economy MCRs can also be considered
as click reaction1,2,3. Same as traditional two components click reactions, MCC reactions can
also be used as efficient coupling tools. Moveover, it is easy to introduce new functional groups
through MCC reactions due to their multicomponent nature. Therefore, some thorny synthetic
problems, such as synthesis of multifunctional PEGylation agents for protein conjugation4 and
preparation of middle functional copolymer and miktoarm copolymer3, etc., can be simply
solved by MCC reactions. In current research, MCC reaction, the Ugi reaction for example, has
been utilized to prepare carbon nanotube-(co)polymer compex. The conventional ‘graft to’ and
‘graft from’ approaches has been combined together to achieve middle functional copolymer
conjugated carbon nanotube. The obtained complex can be well dispersed in normal organic
solvents and water. Meanwhile, the conjugated polymers transfer their specific features to the
complex, indicating the unique superiority of MCC reactions.
Short Biography
Dr. Lei Tao got his Bachelor and Master degrees from University of Science and Technology
of China in 1999 and 2002, respectively. Then he joined Prof. David Haddleton group and
got his PhD degree in 2006. After two post-doc experiences in University of Califonia, Los
angeles (UCLA, Prof. Heather Maynard, 2006-2008) and University of New South Wales
(UNSW, Prof. Thomas Davis, 2008-2010), Dr. Tao joined the Department of Chemistry,
Tsinghua University as an associate professor.
Dr. Tao’s research interests include multicomponent click (MCC) reactions for functional
polymers; multicomponent polymerization system for new functional polymers, and
self-healing hydrogel for bio-application. Dr. Tao published more than 90 papers and the
citation is more than 2600, the h-index of Dr. Tao is 30 by now.
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Zhu, C., Yang, B., Zhao, Y., Fu, C., Tao, L., Wei, Y. Polym. Chem. 2013, 4, 5395-5400.
Zhao, Y., Yang, B., Zhu, C., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Fu, C., Wei, Y., Tao, L. Polym. Chem. 2014, 5, 2695-2699.
Yang, B., Zhao, Y., Fu, C., Zhu, C., Zhang, Y., Wang, S., Wei, Y., Tao, L. Polym. Chem. 2014, 5, 2704-2708.
Yang, B., Zhao, Y., Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Fu, C., Wei, Y., Tao, L. Macromolecules 2014, 47, 5607-5612.
Yang, B., Zhao, Y., Ren, X., Zhang, X., Fu, C., Zhang, Y., Wei, Y., Tao, L. Polym. Chem. Accepted
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