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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 69, Issue 18, Pages 6124-6127Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo049198m
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Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy was successfully used for the first time to follow the Bergman cyclization of bis-ortho-diynyl arene (BODA) compounds. Five BODA monomers with different spacer (X) and terminal groups (R) were compared. In situ polymerization via EPR spectroscopy yielded first-order rate expressions. Monomers with spacer -O- or -C(CF3)(2) and terminal group R = Ph exhibited similar kinetic behavior upon thermal polymerization, whereas monomers with pyridine and thiophene terminal groups gave significantly higher rates of polymerization over phenyl-terminated derivatives. A model compound, 1,2-bis(phenylethynyl)benzene, was used to probe the polymerization mechanism, and radical intermediates were found to be stable indefinitely at room temperature.
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