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Synfacts 2009(10): 1100-1100  
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1217937
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Polymers from Living ROMP and Metal Coordination

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Jan M. Schnorr
S. K. Yang, A. V. Ambade, M. Weck*
New York University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
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22 September 2009 (online)

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The authors describe the synthesis of symmetrical telechelic polymers (6 and 7) using the bimetallic ruthenium initiator 3 in a living ring-opening metathesis polymerization. Self assembly of these two polymers yielded the alternating block copolymer 8.