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Simultaneous Chain-Growth and Step-Growth Polymerization of Methoxystyrenes by Rare-Earth Catalysts.

Angewandte Chemie 2016 November 15
The simultaneous chain-growth and step-growth polymerization of a monomer is of great interest and importance because it can produce unique macromolecules which are difficult to prepare by other means. However, such a transformation is usually difficult to achieve in one polymerization system because chain-growth polymerization and step-growth polymerization proceed by different reaction mechanisms. Reported here is the simultaneous chain-growth and step-growth polymerization of para- and meta-methoxystyrenes catalyzed by half-sandwich rare-earth alkyl complexes, and the step-growth polymerization proceeds by the C-H polyaddition of anisyl units to vinyl groups. This unprecedented transformation affords a new family of macromolecules containing unique alternating anisole-ethylene sequences. In contrast to para- and meta-methoxystyrenes, ortho-methoxystyrene exclusively undergo syndiospecific, living chain-growth polymerization by continuous C=C bond insertion to give perfect syndiotactic poly(ortho-methoxystyrene) with high molecular weight and narrow polydispersity (rrrr >99 %, Mn up to 280 kg mol-1 , Mw /Mn <1.10).

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