Convenient Access to α‐Amino‐ω‐Hydroxyl Heterobifunctional peg and ppo via a Sacrificial Hexahydro‐Triazine Star Strategy

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Figure 2. MALDI-TOF spectra of TrAz-PEG

360

 with the corresponding hydrolyzed 

NH

2

-PEG

124

-OH 

α-amino-ω-hydroxyl polyethylene glycol (bottom).

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Dr. Elena Berger-Nicoletti for MALDI-TOF 

measurements. J.B. acknowledges financial support through the 

Excellence Initiative (DFG/GSC 266) in the context of MAINZ “Materials 

Science in Mainz”.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Keywords

aminals, amine protecting groups, anionic ring opening polymerization, 

heterobifunctional, polyethylene glycol, polypropylene oxide, poylethers

Received: January 14, 2019

Revised: February 19, 2019

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