Synthesis of strictly alternating copolymers by living carbanionic copolymerization of diphenylethylene with 1,3-pentadiene isomers

Abstract

The living carbanionic alternating copolymerizations of 1,3-pentadiene isomers with DPE are reported, and yield well-defined alternating and highly stereoregular amorphous copolymers with controllable <italic>M</italic>_n, low <italic>Đ</italic>_M and predominantly <italic>trans</italic>-1,4 units.