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MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 219, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/macp.201800059
Keywords
addition polymerization; copolymerization; kinetics (polym; ); living polymerization; metal-organic catalysts; organometallic catalysts
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- Promerus LLC
- Princeton University Innovation Fund for Industrial Collaboration
- Lidow Senior Thesis Fund
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Substituted norbornenes may be enchained by vinyl addition polymerization (VAP), through the norbornene double bond. Such monomers are generally prepared by Diels-Alder cycloaddition of cyclopentadiene and the corresponding olefin, which leads to a mixture of endo and exo stereoisomers with potentially very different reactivity, but these differences have not previously been quantified (e.g., as copolymerization reactivity ratios r(endo) and r(exo)). A living Pd-based VAP initiator is employed and the consumption of endo and exo monomers to high conversions is measured to determine r(endo) and r(exo); since the polymerization is living, the products are gradient copolymers. For norbornenes bearing n-butyl, norbornyl, or methylhexafluoroisopropanol substituents, r(exo) = 1-4, and r(exo) r(endo) = 0.2-0.8, indicating only moderate deviations from ideal copolymerization behavior. By contrast, for norbornene bearing a pentamethyldisiloxane substituent, r(endo) is indistinguishable from zero, indicating that the endo isomer is effectively incapable of homopropagation. However, since the polymerization is living, propagation resumes (and chain extension proceeds) when additional exo monomer is charged.
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