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Metathesis co-polymerization as a means of comparing the reactivity of ruthenium initiators in conventional solvents and ionic liquids

✍ Scribed by Margaret M. Gallagher; A. Denise Rooney; John J. Rooney


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
218 KB
Volume
303
Category
Article
ISSN
1381-1169

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✦ Synopsis


Ring opened metathesis polymerization was carried out on a number of cyclic olefins using Cl 2 (PCy 3 ) 2 Ru[CH(Ph)] and [( 6 -p-cymene)(PCy 3 )RuCl( C C CPh 2 )]OTf in dichloromethane and a range of ionic liquids. Microstructural parameters were determined from the 13 C NMR spectra recorded of the polymers. The findings indicate that an increase in activity of both catalysts can occur in certain ionic liquids systems. It was also observed that the activity of [( 6 -p-cymene)(PCy 3 )RuCl( C C CPh 2 )]OTf increases upon addition of an excess of phenol.