CO2-Acidolysis of iminoboronate ester based polymersomes

J Mater Chem B. 2018 Dec 21;6(47):7800-7804. doi: 10.1039/c8tb02496k. Epub 2018 Nov 8.

Abstract

Due to the very weak acidity of CO2 in water, it is highly interesting to fabricate CO2-responsive polymersomes which have both CO2-protonatable tertiary amines and CO2-hydrolyzable iminoboronate-linked drugs. Upon CO2 addition, amine protonation and iminoboronate hydrolysis simultaneously occur, leading to prominent vesicle disassembly and a tunable release feature.