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Berrocal, José AugustoCorresponding Author

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October 15, 2025
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From β-Dicarbonyl Chemistry to Dynamic Polymers

Publicated to: Chemical Reviews. 125 (19): 9296-9331 - 2025-09-23 125(19), DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5c00307

Authors:

Ma, Youwei; Weder, Christoph; Du Prez, Filip E; Berrocal, Jose Augusto
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Affiliations

Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol BIST, Inst Chem Res Catalonia ICIQ, E-43007 Tarragona, Spain - Author
Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne EPFL, Inst Mat, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland - Author
Univ Fribourg, Adolphe Merkle Inst, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland - Author
Univ Fribourg, NCCR Bioinspired Mat, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland - Author
Univ Ghent, Fac Sci, Ctr Macromol Chem CMaC, Dept Organ & Macromol Chem, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium - Author
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Abstract

The past two decades have witnessed an explosion of the use of dynamic bonds in polymer science. The beta-dicarbonyl skeleton has emerged as a most versatile platform motif that has been utilized to synthesize a plethora of dynamic polymers that leverage either reversible metal-ligand coordination or exchangeable dynamic covalent bonds. The high modularity and intrinsic dynamic nature of the structures based on the beta-dicarbonyl motif have received considerable interest across diverse fields, in applications that include drug delivery, the development of sustainable polymers, 3D printing, actuators, and many others. This review summarizes the progress on dynamic polymers derived from beta-dicarbonyl synthons and focuses on three main topics. The first section provides a comprehensive overview of the prevalent methodologies employed for the preparation of polymers containing beta-dicarbonyl moieties. The second part highlights the key features, development, and applications of dynamic polymers based on the beta-dicarbonyl chemistry, including metallo-supramolecular polymers and dynamic covalent polymer networks. In the concluding section, we offer our views on the future challenges and prospects pertaining to this class of dynamic polymer systems.
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Keywords

2-(acetoacetoxy)ethyl methacrylateBlock-copolymersCovalent chemistryCross-link densityEmitting polyfluorenesMetal-complexesMolecular designPi-pi stackingRadical polymerizationRing-opening polymerization

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Chemical Reviews due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 1/239, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Chemistry, Multidisciplinary. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-02-10:

  • WoS: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-02-10:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 15.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 15 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Belgium; Switzerland.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (Berrocal, José Augusto).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Berrocal, José Augusto.

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Awards linked to the item

The graphical elements of the outer layer of Figure 2 (3D printing, actuators, recycling, catalysis, and drug delivery) are ChatGPT-generated images (GPT-4o). J.A.B. acknowledges funding from the European Research Council (ERC) (ReHuse, Project number 101041759), PID2023-149497NA-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, CERCA Program/Generalitat de Catalunya, and Severo Ochoa Excellence Accreditation CEX2024-001469-S funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. F.D.P. acknowledges the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and the innovation programme 101021081 (ERC-AdG-2020, CiMaC-project). C.W. thanks the Adolphe Merkle Foundation, the US Army Research Office (W911NF2320075), and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Bio-Inspired Materials, a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), for funding. Y.M. thanks the ETH domain joint initiative - Proteins For a Sustainable Future (23423).
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