High Anionic Polymerizability of Benzofulvene: New Exo-Methylene Hydrocarbon Monomer
High Anionic Polymerizability of Benzofulvene: New Exo-Methylene Hydrocarbon Monomer
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DOI:
10.1021/acs.macromol.5b00944
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发表时间:
2015-06
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Yuki Kosaka;S. Kawauchi;Raita Goseki;Takashi Ishizone
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作者:
Yuki Kosaka;S. Kawauchi;Raita Goseki;Takashi Ishizone
The anionic polymerization of benzofulvene (BF) quantitatively proceeded with various initiators, such as sec-BuLi, diphenylmethyllithium, diphenylmethylpotassium, triphenylmethyllithium, and triphenylmethylpotassium, in THF at −78 °C to give polymers having predicted molecular weights based on the molar ratios between BF and the initiators and narrow molecular weight distributions (MWD, Mw/Mn < 1.1). Although the initiation efficiencies were not quantitative, BF could also be polymerized with benzylmagnesium chloride, potassium tert-butoxide, and the anionic living poly(tert-butyl methacrylate), indicating the high anionic polymerizability. The planar conformation and the polarized electron density of BF obtained by the density functional theory (DFT) calculation supported the observed anionic polymerizability higher than that of 2-phenyl-1,3-butadiene, the acyclic analogue of BF. A series of new block copolymers, polystyrene-b-poly(BF), poly(2-vinylpyridine)-b-poly(BF), and poly(tert-butyl methacrylate)...