Polymerized sunscreen absorbers

A method of preparing a UVA and/or UVB absorbing chromophore-comprising polymer comprising:

• providing one or more monomers comprising an unsubstituted or substituted strained cycloakene, cycloalkadiene, bicycloalkene, or bicycloalkadiene, wherein optionally one or more sp3 hybridized carbons of the strained cycloakene, cycloalkadiene, bicycloalkene, or bicycloalkadiene is replaced with a heteroatom wherein a portion of the monomers have one or more first reactive functionalities, protected first reactive functionalities or a combination thereof;
• providing a catalyst for ring-opening metathesis to polymerize the monomers;
• optionally deprotecting the protected first reactive functionalities to yield first reactive functionalities;
• combining one or more UVA and/or UVB absorbing chromophores comprising one or more second reactive functionalities that are complementary to the first reactive functionalities, wherein upon reaction between the first and second reactive functionalities a UVA and/or UVB absorbing chromophore-comprising polymer is formed;
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• optionally isolating the UVA and/or UVB absorbing chromophore-comprising polymer.