## Abstract Living cationic ring‐opening polymerization of ϵ‐caprolactone (CL), δ‐valerolactone (VL) and 1,3‐dioxepane‐2‐one (6) was achieved at room temperature by using zirconocene borate complex catalysts. Respective block copolymerization of CL with VL or with cyclic carbonate 6 was also succes
Living ring-opening polymerization of cyclic carbonate using cationic zirconocene complex as catalyst
✍ Scribed by Michiya Hayakawa; Makoto Mitani; Tohru Yamada; Teruaki Mukaiyama
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 280 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1336
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Living ring‐opening polymerization of the cyclic carbonate 1,3‐dioxepan‐2‐one was achieved by using the cationic zirconocene complex [Cp~2~ZrMe]^+^[B(C~6~F~5~)~4~]^−^ as catalyst at room temperature. A linear relation between conversion and molecular weight of the obtained polymer was observed. Furthermore, block copolymerization of the cyclic carbonate and ε‐caprolactone was successfully performed.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
Ring-opening reactions of 1,3-dioxepan-2-one (1) and 1,3-dioxan-2-one (2) with several alcohols were examined. The reactions proceeded without trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in low conversions, while they proceeded smoothly with TFA to afford the ring-opened adducts and oligomers. Ring-opening polymeriz