Updates are available Correction dated 2019-01-08
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Authors
Dong, Ruijiao http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3091-7712
Liu, Ruiyi
Gaffney, Piers R. J.
Schaepertoens, Marc
Marchetti, Patrizia
Williams, Christopher M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0964-2048
Chen, Rongjun http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8133-5472
Livingston, Andrew G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7916-3026
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Article History
Received: 15 November 2017
Accepted: 10 October 2018
First Online: 3 December 2018
Change Date: 8 January 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: In the version of this Article originally published, the authors inadvertently cited ref. 10 in two places in the first paragraph. They would like to clarify that it should not have been cited in the sentence that starts “Polymer chemists have employed strategies such as single monomer insertion...” as it mistakenly implied that the IEG+ method described in ref. 10 could not produce unimolecular polymers; it can do so, as was demonstrated in ref. 10. The authors would also like to clarify that ref. 10 should not have been cited in the sentence that starts “Moreover, solid-phase synthesis is generally difficult to scale up...", as it implied that ref. 10 uses solid-phase synthesis; it does not, and is a purely liquid-phase process. The citation of ref. 10 has now been removed from these two sentences, but has been included elsewhere in the first two paragraphs of the Article as follows. In the first paragraph, at the end of the sentence “In iterative synthesis, specific monomers are added one at a time, or as multiples, to the end of a growing polymer chain, then reaction debris is separated from the chain extended polymer, and the cycle is repeated using the next monomer in the sequence<sup>10–12</sup>.”; this sentence has been further amended to indicate multiple monomers can also be added. The reference has also been added to the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph, which starts “Consequently, liquid-phase iterative synthetic methods...”, and in the third sentence of that paragraph, which now starts “For example, Johnson<sup>10</sup>, Whiting<sup>.</sup>...”.
Competing interests
: Imperial Innovations has filed a UK patent application (no. 1516067.4) related to defined monomer sequence polymers (leading to PCT/GB2016/052801). A.G.L., P.R.J.G., R.D., R.C., P.M. and R.L. are listed as inventors. All other authors declare no competing interests.
