Cationic tungsten imido alkylidene N-heterocyclic carbene complexes for stereospecific ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornene derivatives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janis V. Musso ◽  
Mathis Benedikter ◽  
Paul Gebel ◽  
Vincent Gramm ◽  
Dongren Wang ◽  
...  

Cationic W alkylidene N-heterocyclic carbene complexes allow for the stereospecific ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornenes with high trans-iso- and high cis-syndiospecificity, respectively.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taichi Sotani ◽  
Toshiko Mizokuro ◽  
Tatsuo Yajima ◽  
Hiromitsu Sogawa ◽  
Fumio Sanda

Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of norbornene derivatives is useful for preparing thermally stable and transparent polymeric materials with good moldability. This study deals with ROMP of norbornene monomer 1 bearing...


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 44-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan-Zhen Ke ◽  
Shou-Ling Huang ◽  
Guoqiao Lai ◽  
Tien-Yau Luh

At 0 °C in THF in the presence of Grubbs first generation catalyst, cyclobutene derivatives undergo ROMP readily, whereas norbornene derivatives remain intact. When the substrate contains both cyclobutene and norbornene moieties, the conditions using THF as the solvent at 0 °C offer a useful protocol for the selective ROMP of cyclobutene to give norbornene-appended polycyclobutene. Unsymmetrical ladderphane having polycyclobutene and polynorbornene as two strands is obtained by further ROMP of the norbornene appended polycyclobutene in the presence of Grubbs first generation catalyst in DCM at ambient temperature. Methanolysis of this unsymmetrical ladderphane gives polycyclobutene methyl ester and insoluble polynorbornene-amide-alcohol. The latter is converted into the corresponding soluble acetate. Both polymers are well characterized by spectroscopic means. No norbornene moiety is found to be incorporated into polycyclobutene strand at all. The double bonds in the polycyclobutene strand are mainly in cis configuration (ca 70%), whereas the E/Z ratio for polynorbornene strand is 8:1.


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