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A communication by Jian Li was the subject of an Angewante Chemie “Highlight.”

July 26, 2011 - 12:19pm

A communication by Jian Li was the subject of an Angewante Chemie “Highlight.”  The recent communication by Jian Li, Ryan M. Stayshich and Tara Y. Meyer was selected as the subject for a recent “Highlight” article in Angewante Chemie by Prof. Dr. Christophe M. Thomas and Dr. Jean-François Lutz.  The article describes the importance of the discovery by Li et al. that sequenced copolymers of lactic and glycolic acid hydrolytically degrade with a dramatically different and potentially useful rate profile compared with random analogues.  The impact of this research is significant because poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid)s are one of the most important categories of bioengineering polymers and because the work demonstrates how sequence can be used to tailor polymer properties. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201103076/abstract