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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 8, Pages 2776-2787Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pola.22611
Keywords
catalysis; conjugated polymers; organometallic catalysts; polyacetylenes; rhodium diene complexes; thiophene
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3-Ethynylthiophene (3ETh) was polymerized with Rh(I) complexes: [Rh(cod)acac], [Rh(nbd)acac], [Rh(cod)Cl](2), and [Rh(nbd)Cl](2) (cod is eta(2):eta(2)-cycloocta-1,5-diene and nbd eta(2) :eta(2)-norborna-2,5-diene), used as homogeneous catalysts and with the last two complexes anchored on mesoporous polybenzimidazole (PBI) beads: [Rh(cod)Cl](2)/PBI and [Rh(nbd)Cl](2)/PBI used as heterogeneous catalysts. All tested catalyst systems give high-cis poly(3ETh). In situ NMR study of homogeneous polymerizations induced with [Rh(cod)acac] and [Rh(nbd)acac] complexes has revealed: (i) a transformation of acac ligands into free acetylacetone (Hacac) occurring since the early stage of polymerization, which suggests that this reaction is part of the initiation, (ii) that the initiation is rather slow in both of these polymerization systems, and (iii) a release of cod ligand from [Rh(cod)acac] complex but no release of nbd ligand from [Rh(nbd)acac] complex during the polymerization. The stability of diene ligand binding to Rh-atom in [Rh(diene)acac] catalysts remarkably affects only the molecular weight but not the yield of poly(3ETh). The heterogeneous catalyst systems also provide high-cis poly(3ETh), which is of very low contamination with catalyst residues since a leaching of anchored Rh complexes is negligible. The course of heterogeneous polymerizations is somewhat affected by limitations arising from the diffusion of monomer inside catalyst beads. (c) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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