Treatment of the protected (E)-5'-deoxy-5'-[(p-toluenesulfonyl)methylene]uridine and adenosine derivatives with tributyl- or triphenylgermane hydride (AIBN/toluene/Delta) effected radical-mediated germyldesulfonylations to give 5'-(tributyl- or triphenylgermyl)methylene-5'-deoxyuridine and adenosine derivatives as single (E)-isomers. Analogous treatment of 2'-deoxy-2'-[(phenylsulfonyl)methylene...

The synthesis of vinyl bromobutanoate (VBr), a new vinyl acetate monomer derivative obtained by the palladium-catalyzed vinyl exchange reaction between vinyl acetate (VAc) and 4-bromobutyric acid is reported. The homopolymerization of this new monomer using the RAFT/MADIX polymerization technique leads to the formation of novel well-defined and controlled polymers containing pendent bromine fun...

Abstract Vinyl esters and carbonates have recently been demonstrated to considerably lower cytotoxicity than their more commonly used (meth)acrylate counterparts, inspiring use in the 3D printing of biomaterials. However, degradation rates such synthetic photopolymers are slow, especially mild conditions present many biological environments. Some applications, for example, tissue regeneration s...

The enzymatic degradability of poly(vinyl acetate) was investigated in toluene solutions at various temperatures with hog pancreas lipase. The polymer degraded by specific scission to yield oligomeric products with a molecular weight of 700. Continuous distribution kinetics were used to determine the rate coefficients. The variation of the rate coefficients with the temperature indicated an opt...

Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) composed of polymer or blend is a vital element in PEM fuel cell that allows proton transport and serves as barrier between oxygen. Understanding the microscopic phase behavior blends very crucial to design alternative cost-effective proton-conducting materials. In this study, mesoscale morphologies Nafion/poly(1-vinyl-1,2,4-triazole) (Nafion-PVTri) Nafion/pol...

a most effective and less energy demanding method of producing fatty esters, diol esters, by esterifying fatty acids, with neopentyl and ethylenglycol alcohols in the presence of an acidic ion exchange resin catalyst(polyestyrendivinylbenzensulfated) was investigated at elevated temperature. in this process an azeotroping agent, toluene, was used to facilitate continuous removal of water by dis...

The acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of the alpha,-unsaturated ether group of two plasmalogens, lysophosphatidal choline and lysophosphatidal ethanolamine, and several model compounds (isobutyl vinyl ether, 1-butenyl ethyl ether, and dihydropyran) was studied by determining the true second-order rate constants. The results indicate that the chemical reactivity of the substituted vinyl ether group in p...