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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Biomacromolecules. 2014 Jun 24;15(7):2808–2816. doi: 10.1021/bm500731b

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1

Facile, One, or Three Step Syntheses of Starting Materials for Copper-Free Click Chemistry Cross-Linked Photodegradable Hydrogels. aa8-NBA is synthesized through coupling commmericially available Fmoc-protected photolabile group to 8-arm 40 kDa PEG-amine, deprotecting the Fmoc group with piperidine, and coupling azido butanoic acid. 4-DBCO is synthesized by simply coupling DBCO-acid to 4-arm 20 kDa PEG-amine.