Facile One‐Pot Synthesis of New Functional Polymers through Multicomponent Systems

The synthesis of polymers with various functional groups has always been the core of polymer chemistry. Traditionally, there are two approaches to prepare such polymers: i) preparing functional monomers first and then conducting polymerization to get target functional polymers; and ii) post‐modification of a precursor polymer. Both methods unavoidably involve separation and purification of intermediate products, which is laborious and time‐consuming. A one‐pot synthesis strategy, which combines monomer preparation and controlled polymerization in just one reactor to generate well‐defined polymers efficiently, is thus proposed. Recent advances in the one‐pot synthesis of multifunctional polymers through a multicomponent system are provided in this article.