Living radical polymerization has developed over the past decade into an effective means for macromolecular design. The representative processes are nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP)

atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization or macromolecular design via interchange of xanthate (MADIX).These techniques have been successfully applied to conjugated monomers

but less successfully to unconjugated ones. This review summarizes living radical polymerization techniques that are successfully applied to unconjugated monomers

where mainly RAFT MADIX systems

some ATRP systems

iodine degenerative transfer system and the newly developed organotellurium-mediated radical polymerization (TERP)

organostibine-mediated radical polymerization (SBRP)are available

among which

the uniqueness of TERP and SBRP is worth notice.