Complete Rearrangement of an Organocobalt Polymer: Synthesis of a Thermally Stable Polymer Containing (Cyclobutadiene)cobalt Moieties on the Main Chain
Complete Rearrangement of an Organocobalt Polymer: Synthesis of a Thermally Stable Polymer Containing (Cyclobutadiene)cobalt Moieties on the Main Chain
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有机钴聚合物的完全重排:主链上含有(环丁二烯)钴部分的热稳定聚合物的合成
DOI:
10.1021/ma00101a050
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发表时间:
1994
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
T. Endo
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作者:
I. Tomita;Akinori Nishio;T. Endo
In spite of the great potential utility of organometallic polymers for electron-conductive, nonlinear optical, and liquid crystalline materials, 1· 2 there have been only a few reports dealing with the synthesis of such materials. Recently, we reported a novel synthetic methodology to obtain air-stable organocobalt polymers having cobaltacyclopentadiene moieties in the main chain by oxidative coupling (ie, oxidative ring closure) of diynes with (175-cyclopentadienyl) bis (triphenylphosphine) cobalt complex (Scheme l). 3 The number-average molecular weights (Mn) of these organocobalt polymers reached 200 000 when a purified cobalt monomer was used. A thermal rearrangement reaction of derivatives of cobaltacyclopentadiene has been reported to take place to provide the corresponding derivatives of (?; 4-cyclo-butadiene) cobalt above its meltingtemperature. 4 The resulting (cyclobutadiene) cobalt compounds are known to be quite stable, since they are isoelectronic with ferrocene. 5 Because polymerscontaining (cyclobutadiene) cobalt repeating units may serve as novel materials with higher stability, the novel rearrangement of the organocobalt polymer was examined here. The reaction of the brown-colored organocobalt polymer (I, Mn= 35100) prepared by the reaction of (r; 5-cyclo-pentadienyl) bis (triphenylphosphine) cobalt with 4, 4'-bis-(phenylethynyl) biphenyl3 was carried out at 110 C in tetrahydrofuran (THE) for 1 h in a sealed tube without any added reagents, from which a yellow powdery polymer (2) was obtained in 79% yield by precipitation with n-hexane (Scheme 2). 2 is soluble in organicsolvents such as THE, chloroform, and iV, iV-dimethylformamide, and its M „was estimated as 33 200 by GPC on the basis of standard polystyrene samples. From the n-hexane-soluble fraction in the precipitation process, the eliminated triphenylphosphine was detected. 6 Judgingfrom the similarity in the molecular weights of 1 and 2, side reactions (such as cleavage of the main chain or a cross-linking reaction) do not take place. The quantitative conversion of 1 to polymer 2 was supported by the model reaction of 3 under the same conditions. In this case,(^-cyclopentadienyl)(í? 4-cyclo-butadiene) cobalt (4) was isolated in 97% yield by column chromatography (Scheme 3). 7 Further, the structure of 2 was confirmed by-NMR, 13C-NMR, 31P-NMR, and IR analyses. 8 In the-NMR spectrum of 2 (Figure lb), a peak attributable to cyclopentadienyl moieties was observed at 4.66 ppm, while the corresponding peak in 1 appeared at 4.76 ppm (Figure la). The integral ratio of the peaks in the aromatic region and that of the cyclo-pentadienyl group also supported the complete conversion to 2. In the 13C-NMR spectrum of 2, the cyclopentadienyl group was detected at 83.29 ppm, which is very close to the corresponding peak in 4 (83.24 ppm). No peak for the starting unit in 1 was observed at 89.70 ppm. 3 As expected, no peak was detected in the 31P-NMR spectrum of 2.(a)(, ppm) c6h5 c< h,(b) c, h5