Chemical Communications 2007-05-14

Reusable and environmentally friendly ionic trinuclear iron complex catalyst for atom transfer radical polymerization.

Shota Niibayashi, Hitoshi Hayakawa, Ren-Hua Jin, Hideo Nagashima

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) (18) , 1855-7, (2007)

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Abstract

Ionic iron complex [(Me(3)tacn)(2)Fe(2)Cl(3)](+)[(Me(3)tacn)FeCl(3)](-) (1), which is readily soluble in methanol, acted as a powerful catalyst in controlled radical polymerization of styrene and MMA, and showed promising features of removal from the resulting polymers and was reusable after recovery from the crude products.