Synlett 2019; 30(18): 2051-2057
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1690154
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

Functional End Groups in Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

The author thanks the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Fribourg Centre for Nanomaterials (Frimat) for financial support.
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Publication History

Received: 27 June 2019

Accepted after revision: 24 July 2019

Publication Date:
19 August 2019 (online)


Abstract

Over the last two decades many synthetic methods have been reported to selectively introduce a number of different functional groups at the chain end of a living ring-opening metathesis polymer. In this personal account, I would like to focus on a few such methods developed in my research group over the last several years and how these led to the discovery of catalytic living ring-opening metathesis polymerization, a ring-opening metathesis polymerization method controlled by the polymer end groups. This account consists of the following sections:

1 Introduction

2 Functionalization of the Propagating Chain End

3 Functionalization of the Initiating Chain End

4 Polymerization Control by Functional End Groups

5 Conclusions