Alcohol-promoted ring-opening alkyne metathesis polymerization

Daniel W Paley; Danielle F Sedbrook; John Decatur; Felix R Fischer; Michael L Steigerwald; Colin Nuckolls

doi:10.1002/anie.201300758

Alcohol-promoted ring-opening alkyne metathesis polymerization

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Apr 22;52(17):4591-4. doi: 10.1002/anie.201300758. Epub 2013 Apr 8.

Authors

Daniel W Paley¹, Danielle F Sedbrook, John Decatur, Felix R Fischer, Michael L Steigerwald, Colin Nuckolls

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA.

PMID: 23568783
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201300758

Abstract

Alcohol is the answer! An inactive, air-stable, dimeric molybdenum alkylidyne complex is activated toward ring-opening alkyne metathesis polymerization (ROAMP) by the addition of methanol. The ROAMP is compatible with water and phenol-containing substrates and with the in situ photochemical generation of alkyne monomers from cyclopropenones.