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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2008 Jul 1;130(30):9836–9843. doi: 10.1021/ja801662y

Figure 1.

Figure 1

“Construction kit” approach to obtain facially amphiphilic monomers and polymers. Just as with a Lego construction kit, the synthetic approach presented here allows the independent combination of a hydrophilic (blue), a hydrophobic (green), and a polymerizable (yellow) part of the monomer to yield a whole set of antimicrobial polymers with tunable activity and selectivity.