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Synfacts 2006(12): 1232-1232
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-955584
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-955584
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York
Overcoming the Cationic Route
S. Luo, R. F. Jordan*
The University of Chicago, USA
Further Information
Publication History
Publication Date:
22 November 2006 (online)
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Significance
Vinyl ethers are prone to cationic polymerization, thus it is not easy to achieve insertion polymerization. Furthermore insertion barriers are often too high. Jordan and coworker have conducted a systematic reactivity study of various substrates with (α-diimine)PdMe+, and found that trimethylsilyl or triphenylsilyl vinyl ethers can be incorporated in the insertion copolymerization with 1-hexene. The specificity of the reaction was also demonstrated by showing that the cationic or radical route cannot produce the resulting polymer.