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SUBMITTER: Brega V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6623983 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brega Valentina V Scaletti Federica F Zhang Xianzhi X Wang Li-Sheng LS Li Prudence P Xu Qiaobing Q Rotello Vincent M VM Thomas Samuel W SW
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20190110 3
We report the synthesis of amphiphilic polymers featuring lipophilic stearyl chains and hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) polymers that are connected through singlet oxygen-cleavable alkoxyanthracene linkers. These amphiphilic polymers assembled in water to form micelles with diameters of ∼20 nm. Reaction of the alkoxyanthracene linkers with light and O<sub>2</sub> cleaved the ether C-O bonds, resulting in formation of the corresponding 9,10-anthraquinone derivatives and concomitant disruption o ...[more]