Chemical Communications 2009-03-14

Synthesis of thiol-linked neoglycopolymers and thermo-responsive glycomicelles as potential drug carrier.

Gaojian Chen, Sadik Amajjahe, Martina H Stenzel

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (10) , 1198-200, (2009)

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Abstract

Homopolymer and block copolymer bearing carbohydrate side chain functionality were obtained by grafting glucothiose onto alkene functional scaffolds via a thiol-ene click reaction and the resulting copolymer was used to form thermo-responsive micelles as a potential drug carrier.