Author: Scott

We have a new paper out in Chem. Commun.! In this work, Will, Georgia, Nirob, and Chamoni show that pyridines reversibly form adducts with carbodiimides, lowering their effective concentrations in solution. This allows the activation rates and lifetimes of carbodiimide-driven systems to be controlled.

We have another new paper out in Angew. Chemie.! In this one, Nirob and Will report on the formation of transient covalent polymers using carbodiimide-driven anhydride formation. These systems are intended to complement the many examples of out-of-equilibrium supramolecular polymers, by offering different characterization methods and control over assembly kinetics.

We have a new paper out in Angew. Chem.! Chamoni, Corvo, and Will report on how network architecture affects the properties of polymer materials with temporary crosslinks generated by carbodiimides. Materials that generate interpenetrated networks on treatment with the carbodiimide show remarkable increases in their fracture energies (resistance to fractures).

We have a new paper out in J. Chem. Educ.! Suma and Jake developed an activity for second-year organic chemistry labs that explores out-of-equilibrium systems chemistry. It is based on the work we (and others) have done developing carbodiimide-driven processes.