S. Ito*, M. Noguchi, K. Nozaki*
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 10481–10483. DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34980A Featured in the front cover
Abstract: Inspired by the enzymatic ping-pong mechanism, we designed a novel “ping-pong polymerization”, which employs allylation and hydroformylation in an iterative and alternating manner. Thus, alternating and regioregular vinyl alcohol–vinyl monomer copolymers possessing multiple hydroxy groups in a periodical manner were successfully synthesized.