
Department of Chemistry, Seoul Nat'l University
Organic Functional Materials Laboratory
2024
117

“Independent Control of the Width and Length of Semiconducting 2D Nanorectangles via Accelerated Living Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly”
Songyee Park†, Sung-Yun Kang†, Sanghee Yang*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, ASAP
116

“Depolymerization of Polymethacrylates with Ball-Mill Grinding”
Eunsong Jung, Minyoung Cho, Gregory I. Peterson*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules. 2024, e202400235
(DOI:/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02664)
115
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“Designing Degradable Polymers from Tricycloalkenes via Complete Cascade Metathesis Polymerization”
Yang Yongkang, Yunhyeong Cho, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, e202400235
2023
114

“Living Alternating Ring-Opening Metathesis Copolymerization of 2,3-Dihydrofuran to Provide Completely Degradable Polymers”
Taeyang An†, Hanseul Ryu†, and Tae-Lim Choi*
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202309632
(DOI:/10.1002/anie.202309632)
113

“Modular Access to Bifunctional Norbornenes and Their Application in Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization”
Elliott H. Denton, Minyoung Cho, Bill Morandi, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules 2023, 56, 18, 7490-7495
(DOI:/10.1021/acs.macromol.3c00714)
113
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“Monodisperse Cyclic Polymer Mechanochemistry: Scission Kinetics and the Dynamic Memory Effect with Ultrasonication and Ball-Mill Grinding”
Jinkyung Noh† , Mo Beom Koo† , Jisoo Jung, Gregory I. Peterson*, Kyoung Taek Kim*, and Tae-Lim Choi**
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (33), 18432-18438
112
“Living Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polymerization for Precision Synthesis of Length-Controlled Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons and Their Block Copolymers”
Jaeho Lee, Hanseul Ryu, Songyee Park, Minyoung Cho, and Tae-Lim Choi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (28), 15488–15495
111
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“Size-Tunable Semiconducting 2D Nanorectangles from Conjugated Polyenyne Homopolymer Synthesized via Cascade Metathesis and Metallotropy Polymerization”
Namkyu Yun, Cheol Kang, Sanghee Yang, Soon-Hyeok Hwang, Jun-Mo Park, and Tae-Lim Choi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145 (16), 9029–9038
110

“Depolymerization of poly(α-methyl styrene) with ball-mill grinding”
Eunsong Jung, Daniel Yim, Hyungjun Kim, Gregory I. Peterson,* Tae-Lim Choi *
J. Poly. Sci. 2023, 61 (7), 553-560
2022
109
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“Cascade Cyclopolymerization of 5-Ethynyl-1,8-Nonadiyne Derivatives to Synthesize Low Band Gap Conjugated Polyacetylenes Containing Fused Bicyclic Structure”
Hanseul Ryu, Jong-Chan Sung, Gangme Kim, Yan Xu, Robert H. Grubbs, Tae-Lim Choi *
Angew. Chem. Int .Ed. 2022, 61, e202210244
(DOI://10.1002/anie.202210244)
108
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“Scalable and continuous access to pure cyclic polymers enabled by ‘quarantined’ heterogeneous catalysts”
Ki-Young Yoon†, Jinkyung Noh†, Quan Gan†, Julian P. Edwards, Robert Tuba, Tae-Lim Choi *& Robert H. Grubbs *
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
Nat. Chem. 2022, 14 (11), 1242-1248
(DOI:/10.1038/s41557-022-01034-8)
Highlighted by Nature Synthesis 2022
107
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“Controlled Living Cascade Polymerization of Polycyclic Enyne Monomers: Leveraging Complete Degradability for a Stereochemical and Structural Investigation”
Antonio Rizzo*†, Eunsong Jung†, Hojoon Song, Yunhyeong Cho, Gregory I. Peterson, and Tae-Lim Choi*
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (34), 15643–15652
106
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“Conformation Dynamics of Single Polymer Strands in Solution”
Yuna Bae†, Min Young Ha†, Ki-Taek Bang†, Sanghee Yang, Sung Yun Kang, Joodeok Kim, Jongbaek Sung, Sungsu Kang, Dohun Kang, Won Bo Lee*, Tae-Lim Choi*, Jungwon Park*
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
Adv. Mater. 2022, 2202353
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“Precision Synthesis of Various Low-Bandgap Donor-Acceptor Alternating Conjugated Polymers via Living Suzuki-Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polymerization”
Hwangseok Kim, Jaeho Lee, Taehyun Kim, Minyoung Cho,and Tae-Lim Choi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, e202205828
104
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“Fabrication of Semiconducting Nanoribbons with Tunable Length and Width via Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly of a Homopolymer Prepared by Cyclopolymerization Using Grubbs Catalyst”
Inho Choi, Sung-Yun Kang, Sanghee Yang, Namkyu Yun, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules 2022, 55(9), 3484-2492.
(DOI:/10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00400)
103
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“Modulating the Rate of Controlled Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polymerization by Boronate Tuning”
Hyunwoo Park, Jaeho Lee, Soon-Hyeok Hwang, Daeun Kim, Soon Hyeok Hong, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules 2022, 55(9), 3476–3483.
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00047)
102
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“Synchronous Preparation of Length-Controllable 1D Nanoparticles via Crystallization-Driven In Situ Nanoparticlization of Conjugated Polymers”
Soon-Hyeok Hwang†, Sung-Yun Kang†, Sanghee Yang, Jaeho Lee, and Tae-Lim Choi*
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (13), 5921–5929
101
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“Powerful Direct C–H Amidation Polymerization Affords Single-Fluorophore-Based White-Light-Emitting Polysulfonamides by Fine-Tuning Hydrogen Bonds”
Soon-Hyeok Hwang†, Hongsik Kim†, Hanseul Ryu, Illia E. Serdiuk, Dongwhan Lee*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
(† These authors contributed equally to this work)
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144 (4), 1778–1785
2021
100
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“Recent Advances in Diversity-Oriented Polymerization Using Cu-Catalyzed Multicomponent Reactions”
In-Hwan Lee*, Ki-Taek Bang, Hee-Seong Yang, Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2021, 2100642
99
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“Universal Suzuki–Miyaura Catalyst-Transfer Polymerization for Precision Synthesis of Strong Donor/Acceptor-Based Conjugated Polymers and Their Sequence Engineering”
Jaeho Lee, Hwangseok Kim, Hyunwoo Park, Taehyun Kim, Soon-Hyeok Hwang, Daye Seo, Taek Dong Chung, and Tae-Lim Choi*
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143 (29), 11180-11190.
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“The influence of polymer architecture in polymer mechanochemistry”
Gregory I. Peterson*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Chem. Commun. 2021, 57, 6465-6474.
97
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“Mechanochemical Reactivity of Bottlebrush and Dendronized Polymers: Solid vs Solution States”
Jinkyung Noh, Gregory I. Peterson*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60 (34), 18651-18659.
96
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“Constructing a Library of Doubly Grafted Polymers by One-Shot Cu-Catalyzed Multicomponent Grafting Strategy”
Ki-Taek Bang, Hyunseok Kim, Sung-Yun Kang, Atanu Bhaumik, Sojeong Ahn, Namkyu Yoon and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules. 2021, 54 (12), 5539-5548.
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00440 )
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“Semi-conducting 2D rectangles with tunable length via uniaxial living crystallization-driven self-assembly of homopolymer”
Sanghee Yang, Sung-Yun Kang, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 2602.
(DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22879-6)
94
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“Influence of Grafting Density on Ultrasound-Induced Backbone and Arm Scission of Graft Copolymers”
Gregory I. Peterson*, Jinkyung Noh, Min Young Ha, Sanghee Yang, Won Bo Lee*, and Tae-Lim Choi*
Macromolecules 2021, 54 (9), 4219-4226.
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00334)
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“Multi-scale Structure and Dynamics of Dendronized Polymers with Varying Generations”
Emmanouil Vereroudakis, Ki-Taek Bang, Maria Karouzou, Antonela Ananiadou, Jinkyung Noh, Tae-Lim Choi, Benoit Loppinet, George Floudas, and Dimitris Vlassopoulos*
Macromolecules 2021, 54 (1), 235-248
(DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c02356)
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“Tandem Diaza-Cope Rearrangement Polymerization: Turning Intramolecular Reaction into Powerful Polymerization to Give Enantiopure Materials for Zn(2+) Sensor”
Soon-Hyeok Hwang and Tae-Lim Choi*
Chem. Sci., 2021, 12, 2404-2409.