Plasmalogens are a major subclass of ethanolamine and choline glycerophospholipids in which a long chain fatty alcohol is attached at the sn-1 position through a vinyl ether bond. This ether-linked alkyl bond is formed in peroxisomes by replacement of a fatty acyl chain in the intermediate 1-acyl-dihydroxyacetone phosphate with a fatty alcohol in a reaction catalyzed by alkyl dihydroxyacetone p...

Vinyl ether (VE) was long believed to be among the monomers that could not radically homopolymerized. Therefore, synthesize block copolymers with versatile polymerizable monomers, efficient transformation reactions were necessary between living cationic and controlled radical polymerizations. Under such circumstances, some groundbreaking polymerizations have been discovered. One reaction, a met...