US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Boston College on May 6 for "Radical cascade-enabled synthesis of precision polymers with complex main-chain structures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,596, issued on May 6, was assigned to The Trustees of Boston College (Chesnut Hill, Mass.).

"Radical cascade-enabled synthesis of precision polymers with complex main-chain structures" was invented by Jia Niu (Lexington, Mass.), Hanchu Huang (Newton, Mass.) and Wenqi Wang (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radical cascade reactions enabling sequence-controlled ring-closing polymerization and ring-opening polymerization for the controlled synthesis of polymers with complex main-chain structures are provided. Facile syntheses leading to low-strain macrocyclic monomers consisting of the ring-opening triggers and extended ma...