High molecular weight poly(N-methyl-B-vinylazaborine) - a semi-inorganic B-N polystyrene analogue

Birk Thiedemann; Philipp J Gliese; Jonas Hoffmann; Paul G Lawrence; Frank D Sönnichsen; Anne Staubitz

doi:10.1039/c6cc08599g

High molecular weight poly(N-methyl-B-vinylazaborine) - a semi-inorganic B-N polystyrene analogue

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jun 29;53(53):7258-7261. doi: 10.1039/c6cc08599g.

Authors

Birk Thiedemann¹, Philipp J Gliese, Jonas Hoffmann, Paul G Lawrence, Frank D Sönnichsen, Anne Staubitz

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Organic and Analytical Chemistry, Leobener Str. NW2C, University of Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germany. staubitz@uni-bremen.de.

PMID: 28054054
DOI: 10.1039/c6cc08599g

Abstract

We present the synthesis of a B-N analogue of polystyrene, poly(N-methyl-B-vinylazaborine) in high molecular weight (M_W = 24.9 kDa). Furthermore, it was possible to prepare a copolymer with the C-C analogue. A thorough comparison between the polymers by NMR spectroscopy, TGA, DSC and GPC showed significant differences between these polymers.