Iron‐Catalyzed Dehydropolymerization: A Convenient Route to Poly(phosphinoboranes) with Molecular‐Weight Control

André Schäfer, Titel Jurca, Joshua Turner, James R. Vance, Kajin Lee, Van An Du, M.F. Haddow, George R. Whittell, Ian Manners

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2015 · 84 citations · 55 references

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Abstract

The catalyst loading is the key to control the molecular weight of the polymer in the iron-catalyzed dehydropolymerization of phosphine-borane adducts. Studies showed that the reaction proceeds through a chain-growth coordination-insertion mechanism.

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