Fig. 1. Chemical structures of compounds investigated in this study: (A) monosubstituted, functional chain transfer agents (CTAs) (CTA1–20). (B) Bi, tri, and tetra functional CTAs (CTA11–14). (C) Disubstituted CTAs (CTA15–26). (D) poly(ethylene glycol) based macroinitiator (PEG2k macroinitiator). (E) Structures of monomers. (F) Structure of Grubbs' 3rd generation catalyst (G3).
