It should be stressed that the (meth)acrylate monomer family is industrially important, with for instance (i) many applications for the automotive industry, (ii) intensive usage for coatings, casts and protective materials, 41 and (iii) various functionalized derivatives. We therefore exploit in the present work the copolymerization of DOT with both acrylate derivatives and maleimide, keeping in mind their copolymerization potential involving methacrylate derivatives. This is done to design efficient DOT-methacrylate-acrylate and DOTmethacrylate-maleimide terpolymerizations, allowing for the first time the regulated insertion of weak DOT-based thioester moieties in a fast manner into methacrylate-rich backbones, using a thionolactone comonomer and an auxiliary comonomer. (CMMC) simulations. Such simulations will reveal that the sequence delivered is actually a triad "red-green-red" and not simply a dyad "red-green", as displayed here (Figure ).