David Mark Haddleton (born 1962) is a professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Warwick. His work focuses on controlled polymer synthesis and the industrial applications of polymer materials. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Career
Haddleton was editor in chief of the European Polymer Journal from 2002 – 2009 prior to becoming the founding editor and editor in chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry Polymer Chemistry from 2009 to 2017. He is the executive editor in chief of Cambridge Materials journals published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). He has founded two companies Warwick Effect Polymers Ltd (now part of Abzena) a drug-polymer conjugation company and Medherant Ltd which develops transdermal drug delivery patches for delivery of testosterone for women where he is a director and CSO.
Selected publications
Ladmiral, V.; Mantovani, G.; Clarkson, G. J.; Cauet, S.; Irwin, J. L.; Haddleton, D. M., Synthesis of neoglycopolymers by a combination of "click chemistry" and living radical polymerization. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2006, 128 (14), 4823-4830. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja058364k
Mantovani, G.; Lecolley, F.; Tao, L.; Haddleton, D. M.; Clerx, J.; Cornelissen, J.; Velonia, K., Design and synthesis of N-maleimido-functionalized hydrophilic polymers via copper-mediated living radical polymerization: A suitable alternative to PEGylation chemistry.Journal of the American Chemical Society 2005, 127 (9), 2966-2973. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0430999
Tao, L.; Mantovani, G.; Lecolley, F.; Haddleton, D. M., α-Aldehyde terminally functional methacrylic polymers from living radical polymerization: Application in protein conjugation "pegylation".Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126 (41), 13220-13221. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0456454
Zhang, Q.; Wilson, P.; Li, Z. D.; McHale, R.; Godfrey, J.; Anastasaki, A.; Waldron, C.; Haddleton, D. M., Aqueous Copper-Mediated Living Polymerization: Exploiting Rapid Disproportionation of CuBr with Me6TREN.Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135 (19), 7355-7363. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja4026402
Haddleton, D. M.; Jasieczek, C. B.; Hannon, M. J.; Shooter, A. J., Atom transfer radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate initiated by alkyl bromide and 2-pyridinecarbaldehyde imine copper(I) complexes.Macromolecules 1997, 30 (7), 2190-2193. https://doi.org/10.1021/ma961074r
Anastasaki, A.; Nikolaou, V.; Nurumbetov, G.; Wilson, P.; Kempe, K.; Quinn, J. F.; Davis, T. P.; Whittaker, M. R.; Haddleton, D. M., Cu(0)-Mediated Living Radical Polymerization: A Versatile Tool for Materials Synthesis.Chemical Reviews 2016, 116 (3), 835-877. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00191