“…Recently, it has been demonstrated that (NHC)Pd-based systems cat-alyze vinyl-addition polymerization of various functionalized norbornenes [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. For instance, these systems showed good catalytic activity in polymerization of norbornenes with hydroxy [20,22], ether [21], ester [14,15,[18][19][20]23,24], imide [14,16,17], silyl [14,19,20,24], and alkyl/alkenyl [19,20,22,24,25] functionality. At the same time, to the best of our knowledge, the polymerization of norbornene-type monomers with reactive halogen-containing groups over (NHC)Pd-catalysts has not yet been reported.…”