Polycatenane

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Polycatenane[1] is the polymer consists of mechanically-linked catenane structures. According to the location of the catenane structures in the polymer chain, the polcatenanes can be divided into main-chain polycatenane, side-chain polycatenane. [n]-catenane (n is a large number), which is constructed solely by the mechanically interlocked cyclic components,can be viewed as “optimized ” polycatenane.

References

  1. Z.Niu and Harry.W. Gibson (2009). "Polycatenanes". Chem.Reviews. 109 (11): 6024–6046 DOI: 10.1021/cr900002h.