Living ROMP Synthesis and Redox Properties of Diblock Ferrocene/Cobalticenium Copolymers

Roberto Ciganda; Haibin Gu; Patricia Castel; Penxiang Zhao; Jaime Ruiz; Ricardo Hernández; Didier Astruc

doi:10.1002/marc.201500566

Living ROMP Synthesis and Redox Properties of Diblock Ferrocene/Cobalticenium Copolymers

Macromol Rapid Commun. 2016 Jan;37(1):105-111. doi: 10.1002/marc.201500566. Epub 2015 Nov 23.

Authors

Roberto Ciganda^{1

2}, Haibin Gu^{1

3}, Patricia Castel¹, Penxiang Zhao⁴, Jaime Ruiz¹, Ricardo Hernández², Didier Astruc¹

Affiliations

¹ ISM, UMR CNRS No 5255, Univ. Bordeaux, 33405, Talence Cedex, France.
² Facultad de Química de San Sebastián, Universidad del País Vasco, Apdo. 1072, 20080, San Sebastián, Spain.
³ Key Laboratory of Leather Chemistry and Engineering of Ministry of Education, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, P. R. China.
⁴ Science and Technology on Surface Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, PO Box 718-35, Mianyang, 621907, Sichuan, China.

PMID: 26592969
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201500566

Abstract

Using the third-generation Grubbs catalyst, the living ring-opening metathesis polymerization of ferrocene/cobalticenium copolymers is conducted with theoretical numbers of 25 monomer units for each block, and their redox and electrochemical properties allow using the Bard-Anson electrochemical method to determine the number of metallocenyl units in each block.

Keywords: cobalticenium; electrochemistry; ferrocene; metallopolymers; ring-opening metathesis polymerization, ROMP.