“…In contrast, SnCl 4 , FeCl 3 and GaCl 3 , which have more chloride affinity,22, 30 would remove the Cl atom from IBVE‐HCl, generating a carbocation with the structure derived from IBVE for inducing copolymerization. Thus, copolymerization was conducted in toluene at −78 °C using SnCl 4 , FeCl 3 , and GaCl 3 (Table 1, entries 5–7, respectively), which showed different interactions with basic compounds compared to EtAlCl 2 22, 28, 31–34. These Lewis acids had larger activities for VE polymerization in the presence of an added base 22, 35, 36.…”