Publications | TLClab

2019

[73] Jung-Ah Song, Bohyun Park, Soohyung Kim, Cheol Kang, Dongwhan Lee, Mu-Hyun Baik*, Robert H. Grubbs and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Living Polymerization Caught in the Act: Direct Observation of an Arrested Intermediate in Metathesis Polymerization“

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, ASAP article

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b04019)

[72] Fabien Dutertre*^†, Ki-Taek Bang^†, Emmanouil Vereroudakis, Benoit Loppinet, Sanghee Yang , Sung-Yun Kang, George Fytas*, and Tae-Lim Choi* (^† These authors contributed equally to this work)

“Conformation of Tunable Nanocylinders: Up to Sixth-Generation Dendronized Polymers via Graft-Through Approach by ROMP”

Macormolecules. 2019, 52 (9), 3342-3350

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00457)

[71] Gregory I. Peterson, Sanghee Yang, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Synthesis of Functional Polyacetylenes via Cyclopolymerization of Diyne Monomers with Grubbs-type Catalysts”

Acc. Chem. Res. 2019, 52 (4), 994-1005

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00594)

2018

[70] Inho Choi, Sanghee Yang, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Preparing Semiconducting Nanoribbons with Tunable Length and Width via Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of a Simple Conjugated Homopolymer”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140(49), 17218–17225

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10406)

[69] Cheol Kang, Seongyeon Kwon, Jong-Chan Sung, Jinwoo Kim, Mu-Hyun Baik*, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Living Metathesis and Metallotropy Polymerization Gives Conjugated Polyenynes from Multialkynes: How to Design Sequence-Specific Cascades for Polymers”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (47), 16320–16329

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10269)

Highlighted by SYNFACTS on Feb 2019-

[68] Jaeho Lee, Suyong Shin, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Fast Living Polymerization of Challenging Aryl Isocyanides Using an Air-Stable Bisphosphine-Chelated Nickel(II) Initiator”

Macromolecules 2018, 51(19), 7800-7806

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01090)

Highlighted by SYNFACTS on Dec 2018-

[67] Yoon-Jung Jang, Soon-Hyeok Hwang, Jinkyung Noh, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Library of Fluorescent Polysulfonamides and Polyamide Synthesized by Iridium-Catalyzed Direct C–H Amidation Polymerization”

Macromolecules 2018, 51(19), 7476-7482

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01405)

[66] Ho-Keun Lee, Jaeho Lee, Johannes Kockelmann, Torben Herrmann, Massih Sarif, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Superior Cascade Ring-Opening/Ring-Closing Metathesis Polymerization and Multiple Olefin Metathesis Polymerization: Enhancing the Driving Force for Successful Polymerization of Challenging Monomers”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140(33), 10536-10545

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05613)

[65] Yunshik Cho^†, Youngjin Kim^†, Tae-Lim Choi*, Jeewoo Lim*, and Kookheon Char* (^† These authors contributed equally to this work)

“Swelling-induced pore generation in fluorinated polynorbornene block copolymer films”

Polym. Chem. 2018,9, 3536-3542

(DOI: 10.1039/C8PY00646F)

[64] Gregory I. Peterson^†, Ki-taek Bang^†, and Tae-Lim Choi* (^† These authors contributed equally to this work)

“Mechanochemical Degradation of Denpols: Synthesis and Ultrasound-Induced Chain Scission of Polyphenylene-Based Dendronized Polymers”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140(27), 8599–8608

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b05110)

[63] Kijung Jung, Kunsoon Kim, Jong-Chan Sung, Tonia S. Ahmed, Soon Hyeok Hong , Robert H. Grubbs , and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Toward Perfect Regiocontrol for β-Selective Cyclopolymerization Using a Ru-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalyst”

Macromolecules 2018, 51(12), 4564-4571

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00969)

[62] Suyong Shin, Florian Menk, Youngjin Kim, Jeewoo Lim , Kookheon Char, Rudolf Zentel , and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Living Light-Induced Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly for Rapid Preparation of Semiconducting Nanofibers”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (19), 6088-6094

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01954)

Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications

[61] Ho-Keun Lee and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Unusual Superior Activity of the First Generation Grubbs Catalyst in Cascade Olefin Metathesis Polymerization”

ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 531-535

(DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00150)

[60] Kyeong-Bae Seo^†, In-Hwan Lee^†, Jaeho Lee^†, Inho Choi and Tae-Lim Choi* (^† These authors contributed equally to this work)

“A Rational Design of Highly Controlled Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polycondensation for Precision Synthesis of Polythiophenes and Their Block Copolymers: Marriage of Palladacycle Precatalysts with MIDA-Boronates”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140(12), 4335-4343

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b13701)

Highlighted by SYNFACTS on May 2018-

[59] Hoimin Jung^†, Kijung Jung^†, Mannkyu Hong, Seongyeon Kwon, Kunsoon Kim, Soon Hyeok Hong, Tae-Lim Choi*, Mu-Hyun Baik*

(^† Both authors contributed equally to this work)

“Understanding the Origin of the Regioselectivity in Cyclopolymerizations of Diynes and How to Completely Switch It”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (2), 834-841

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b11968)

[58] Suyong Shin, Ming-Long Gu, Chin-Yang Yu, Jongseol Jeon, Eunji Lee, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Polymer Self-Assembly into Unique Fractal Nanostructures in Solution by a One-Shot Synthetic Procedure”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 475-481.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b11630)

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2017

[57] Suyong Shin, Jeewoo Lim, Ming-Long Gu, Chin-Yang Yu, Mooncheol Hong, Kookheon Char*, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Dimensionally controlled water-dispersible amplifying fluorescent polymer nanoparticles for selective detection of charge-neutral analytes”

Polym. Chem. 2017, 8, 7507-7514.

(DOI: 10.1039/C7PY01582H)

[56] Yoon-Jung Jang, Soon-Hyeok Hwang, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Iridium-catalyzed direct C-H amidation polymerization:step-growth polymerization by C-N bond formation via C-H activation to give fluorescent polysulfonamides”

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14474-14478.

(DOI: 10.1002/ange.201707446)

[55] Cheol Kang, Hyeon Park, Jin-Kyung Lee, and Tae-Lim Choi*

“Cascade Polymerization via Controlled Tandem Olefin Metathesis/Metallotropic 1,3-Shift Reactions for the Synthesis of Fully Conjugated Polyenynes”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139(33), 11309-11312.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b04913)

Posted on the front page of JACS (23/08/2017)

[54] Jun-Mo Park, Dong Won Kim, Hae Yeon Chung, Ji Eon Kwon, Seung Hwa Hong, Tae-Lim Choi* and Soo Young Park*

“A stereoregular β-dicyanodistyrylbenzene (β-DCS)-based conjugated polymer for high-performance organic solar cells with small energy loss and high quantum efficiency”

J. Mater. Chem. A. 2017, 5, 16681-16688.

(DOI: 10.1039/c7ta04127f)

[53] Cheol Kang, Eun-Hye Kang, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Successful cyclopolymerization of 1,6-Heptadiynes Using 1st Generation Grubbs Catalyst Twenty Years After Its Invention: Revealing a Comprehensive Picture of Cyclopolymerization Using Grubbs Catalysts”

Macromolecules 2017, 50(8), 3153-3163.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00488)

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[52] Jung-Ah Song, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Seven-Membered Ring-Forming Cyclopolymerization of 1,8-Nonadiyne Derivatives Using Grubbs Catalysts: Rational Design of Monomers and Insights into the Mechanism for Olefin Metathesis Polymerizations”

Macromolecules 2017, 50(7), 2724-2735.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00606)

[51] Eun-Hye Kang, Sanghee Yang, So Young Yu, Jeongeun Kim, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Spontaneous evolution of nanostructures by light-driven growth of micelles obtained from in situ nanoparticlization of conjugated polymers”

J. Polym. Sci. Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017, 55, 3058-3066. (DOI: 10.1002/pola.28598)

[50] Dae-Yoon Kim, Suyong Shin, Won-Jin Yoon, Yu-jin Choi, Joo-Kyoung Hwang, Jin-Soo Kim, Cheul-Ro Lee, Tae-Lim Choi*, Kwang-Un Jeong*

“From Smart Denpols to Remote-Controllable Actuators: Hierarchical Superstructures of Azobenzene-Based Polynorbornenes“

Adv. Funct. Mater. 2017, 1606294 (8p)

(DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201606294)

[49] Sanghee Yang, Suyong Shin, Inho Choi, Jaeho Lee, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Direct Formation of Large-Area 2D Nanosheets from Fluorescent Semiconducting Homopolymer with Orthorhombic Crystalline Orientation”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (8), 3082-3088.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b12378)

2016

[48] Sun Gu Song, Seonggyun Ha, Kyeong-Bae Seo, Jookyeong Lee, Tae-Lim Choi, Thathan Premkumar, and Changsik Song*

“Binaphthyl-incorporated π-conjugated polymer/gold nanoparticle hybrids: a facile size- and shape-tailored synthesis”

RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 107994-107999.

(DOI: 10.1039/C6RA22234J)

[47] In-Hwan Lee, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Importance of Choosing the Right Polymerization Method for in situ Preparation of Semiconducting Nanoparticles from P3HT Block Copolymer”

Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 7135-7141.

(DOI: 10.1039/C6PY01678B)

[46] Eun-Hye Kang, Cheol Kang, Sanghee Yang, Elina Oks, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Mechanistic Investigations on the Competition between the Cyclo-polymerization and [2+2+2] Cycloaddition of 1,6-Heptadiyne Derivatives Using Second-Generation Grubbs Catalysts”

Macromolecules 2016, 49 (17), 6240–6250. (DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01110)

[45] Dae-Yoon Kim, Dong-Gue Kang, Suyong Shin, Tae-Lim Choi*, and Kwang-Un Jeong*

“Hierarchical superstructures of norbornene-based polymers depending on dendronized side-chains”

Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, 5304-5311.

(DOI: 10.1039/c6py01286h)

[44] Kijung Jung, Eun-Hye Kang, Jeong-Hun Sohn, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Highly β-selective Cyclopolymerization of 1,6-Heptadiynes and Ring-Closing Enyne Metathesis Reaction Using Grubbs Z-selective Catalyst: Unprecedented Regio-selectivity for Ru-based Catalysts”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 11227-11233.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b05572)

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[43] Hyunseok Kim, Ki-Taek Bang, Inho Choi, Jin-Kyung Lee, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Diversity-Oriented Polymerization: One-shot synthesis of Library of Graft and Dendronized Polymers by Cu-catalyzed Multicomponent Polymerization”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138 (27), 8612–8622.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b04695)

Spotlights on Recent JACS Publications, Highlighted by SYNFACTS on SEP 2016-

[42] In-Sun Jung*, Young Joo Lee*, Daun Jeong, Robert Graf, Tae-Lim Choi, Won-Joon Son, Xavier Bulliard, and Hans Wolfgang Spiess

“Conformational Analysis of Oxygen-Induced Higher Ordered Structure of A, B-Alternating Poly(arylene vinylene) Copolymers by Solid-State NMR and Molecular Dynamics Simulations”

Macromolecules 2016, 49 (8), 3061–3069.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02245)

[41] Jun-Mo Park, Sang Kyu Park, Won Sik Yoon, Jin Hong Kim, Dong Won Kim, Tae-Lim Choi*, and Soo Young Park*

“Designing Thermally Stable Conjugated Polymers with Balanced Ambipolar Field-Effect Mobilities by Incorporating Cyanovinylene Linker Unit“

Macromolecules 2016, 49(8), 2985–2992.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02761)

[40] Fabien Dutertre, Ki-Taek Bang, Benoit Loppinet, Inho Choi, Tae-Lim Choi*, and George Fytas*

“Structure and Dynamics of Dendronied Polymer Solutions: Gaussian Coil of Macromolecular Rod?“

Macromolecules 2016, 49(7), 2731-2740.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00420)

[39] Florian Menk, Suyong Shin, Kyung-Oh Kim, Martin Scherer, Dominik Gehrig, Frederic Laquai, Tae-Lim Choi*, and Rudolf Zentel*

“Synthesis of Functional Block Copolymers Carrying One Poly(p-phenylenevinylene) and One Nonconjugated Block in a Facile One-Pot Procedure”

Macromolecules 2016, 49(6), 2085-2095.

(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02529)

[38] Hyeon Park, Eun-Hye Kang, Laura Müller, and Tae-Lim Choi* “Versatile Tandem Ring-Opening/Ring-Closing Metathesis Polymerization: Strategies for Successful Polymerization of Challenging Monomers and Their Mechanistic Studies”

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 2244-2251.

(DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12223)

[37] In-Hwan Lee, Pitchamuthu Amaladass, Inho Choi, Victor W. Bergmann, Stefan A. L. Weber, Tae-Lim Choi*

“Preparing DNA-mimicking multi-line nanocaterpillars via in situ nanoparticlisation of fully conjugated polymers“

Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 1422-1428.

(DOI: 10.1039/C5PY01967B)

[36] Jeewoo Lim, Yunshik Cho, Eun-Hye Kang, Sanghee Yang, Jeff Pyun, Tae-Lim Choi*, Kookheon Char*

“One-Pot Synthesis of Polysulfane-Bearing Block Copolymer Nanoparticles with Tunable Size and Refractive Index”

Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 2485-2488.