Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of 2,3-Difunctionalized- Norbornadienes by Mo(CH-t-Bu)(N-2,6-C(6)H(3)-i-Pr(2)(O-t-Bu)(2)
Abstract
Benzonorbornadiene 2,3-dicarbomethoxynorbornadiene and 2,3- bis(trifluoromethyl)norbornadiene can be polymerized by Mo(CH-t-Bu)(NAr)(O-t-Bu) 2(Mo(CH-t-Bu)) in a well-behaved living manner to give essentially monodisperse homopolymers. Two of the polymers and (especially) poly 5 are highly trans, and are believed to be tactic. The rate of polymerization is approximately thirty times faster at room temperature, a factor of approximately ten of which can be ascribed to the lower reactivity and the remainder to the lower reactivity relative to 7-Isopropylidene-2-3-dicarbomethoxynorbornadiene is not polymerized at all by Mo(CH-t-Bu), although it does react with Mo(CH-t-Bu). An X-ray structure shows it to be a pseudo-tetrhedral species containing a syn alkylidene ligand (substituent pointing toward the imido nitrogen atom).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 06, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA225986
Entities
People
- E. Khosravi
- G. C. Bazan
- R. R. Schrock
- V. C. Gibson
- W. J. Feast
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology