Discussion on "Aperiodic Copolymers"

Stuart J Rowan; Christopher Barner-Kowollik; Bert Klumperman; Pierre Gaspard; Robert B Grubbs; Marc A Hillmyer; Lian R Hutchings; Mahesh K Mahanthappa; Dafni Moatsou; Rachel K O'Reilly; Makoto Ouchi; Mitsuo Sawamoto; Timothy P Lodge

doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00758

Discussion on "Aperiodic Copolymers"

ACS Macro Lett. 2016 Jan 19;5(1):1-3. doi: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00758. Epub 2015 Dec 8.

Authors

Stuart J Rowan¹, Christopher Barner-Kowollik^{2

3}, Bert Klumperman⁴, Pierre Gaspard⁵, Robert B Grubbs⁶, Marc A Hillmyer⁷, Lian R Hutchings⁸, Mahesh K Mahanthappa⁹, Dafni Moatsou¹⁰, Rachel K O'Reilly¹¹, Makoto Ouchi¹⁰, Mitsuo Sawamoto¹⁰, Timothy P Lodge^{7

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2100 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
² Preparative Macromolecular Chemistry, Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstr. 18, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.
³ Institut für Biologische Grenzflächen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany.
⁴ Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa.
⁵ Centre for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Campus Plaine Code Postal 231, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.
⁶ Chemistry Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3400, United States.
⁷ Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.
⁸ Durham Centre for Soft Matter, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
¹¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom.

PMID: 35668592
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00758

Abstract

In a recent Viewpoint (ACS Macro Lett. 2014, 3, 1020), J.-F. Lutz brought to the community's attention the need for more informative nomenclature, especially with respect to macromolecules with prescribed but not repeating sequences of monomers. Lutz proposes the use of the term "aperiodic" for this situation. In this Viewpoint, we comment on the need for such nomenclature and offer some alternatives for consideration.