Butanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-2-methylene-, ethyl ester

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CAS: 19362-99-3
MF: C7H12O3
MW: 144.16838
Synonyms: Butanoic acid, 3-hydroxy-2-methylene-, ethyl ester

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Eugene Y.-X. Chen

Colorado State University
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Co-reporter: Ravikumar R. Gowda and Eugene Y.-X. Chen
pp: 772
Publication Date(Web):June 8, 2016
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.6b00370
Achieving complete chemoselectivity in the polymerization of multivinyl polar monomers is an important yet challenging task, currently achievable only by metal- or metalloid-mediated polymerization processes but in a noncatalytic fashion. Now this work shows that organic N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) catalysts effect rapid, chemoselective, and catalytic polymerization of multivinyl-functionalized γ-butyrolactones, particularly γ-vinyl-α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone (VMBL). Thus, the NHC-catalyzed polymerization of VMBL not only is quantitatively chemoselective, proceeding exclusively via polyaddition across the conjugated α-methylene double bond while leaving the γ-vinyl double bond intact, but also requires only an exceptionally low catalyst loading of 50 ppm, thus, exhibiting a remarkably high catalyst turnover frequency of 80000 h–1 and producing on average 33.6 polymer chains of Mn = 73.8 kg/mol per NHC molecule. The resulting PVMBL can be either thermally cured into cross-linked materials or postfunctionalized with the thiol–ene “click” reaction to achieve complete conversion of the pendant vinyl group on every repeat unit into the corresponding thioether.

Jianwei Dou

Xi’an Jiaotong University
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