Synthesis of strained macrocyclic biaryls for enthalpy-driven ring-opening polymerizationColquhoun, H.M., Zhu, Z.X., Dudman, C.C., O'Mahoney, C.A., Williams, D.J. and Drew, M.G.B. (2005) Synthesis of strained macrocyclic biaryls for enthalpy-driven ring-opening polymerization. Macromolecules, 38 (25). pp. 10413-10420. ISSN 0024-9297 Full text not archived in this repository. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1021/ma0517796 Abstract/SummaryPolymerizable macrocyclic biarylene-ether-ketones and biarylene-ether-sulfones are accessible from linear, bis(chloro)-terminated oligomers via nickel-catalyzed, intramolecular coupling under pseudo-high-dilution conditions. Single-crystal X-ray analyses of the resulting cyclo-oligomers reveal extremely distorted and highly strained geometries, with 4,4 '-biphenylene units showing deviations of up to 70 degrees from linearity.
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