Tetrahedron

Design and synthesis of polymerizable cumulated double bond system.-Living coordination polymerization of alkylallenes by π-allylnickel catalyst

T Endo, K Takagi, I Tomita

Index: Endo, Takeshi; Takagi, Koji; Tomita, Ikuyoshi Tetrahedron, 1997 , vol. 53, # 45 p. 15187 - 15196

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Citation Number: 32

Abstract

The coordination polymerization of monoalkylallenes (2a; 1, 2-nonadiene, 2b; 1, 2- heptadiene, 2c; cyclohexylallene, 2d; t-butylallene) was carried out by [(π-allyl) NiOCOCF3] 2 (1). The polymerization was found to proceed through a living process without any side reactions to yield soluble polymers in high yields, where the resulting polymers had predictable molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions. The ...