Organoboron-mediated polymerizations

Abstract

This review provides a comprehensive summary of organoboron-mediated free radical polymerization, Lewis pair polymerization, ionic polymerization, and polyhomologation, laying the groundwork for further establishment of polymerization methods.

Microreactor-Based Green Synthetic Platform for Flow Synthesis of Biodegradable Polymers

“…Organocatalysis has been demonstrated as the efficient synthetic protocol for metal-free biodegradable polyesters. , Since the initial discovery, various kinds of organic molecules have been screened to perform ROP with different proposed mechanisms. , By transferring organocatalysis from the batch reactor into the microreactor, remarkable advantages are achieved toward biodegradable polymer synthesis. The first example of continuous flow organocatalyzed ring-opening polymerizations to biodegradable polyesters was reported by Wennekes et al and Guo et al, respectively, in 2016.…”

Boron‐Catalyzed C1 Copolymerization of Arsonium and Sulfoxonium Ylides toward Unrepresented Structures and Fluorescence Properties

“…Since Shea's seminal discovery, considerable attention has been dedicated to this research topic. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Various polymer architectures were synthesized by combining polyhomologation with other living and controlled/living polymerization techniques, including anionic polymerization, [13][14][15] atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), [16] reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT), [17] and ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP). [18,19] Sulfoxonium methylide monomer was replaced with allylic arsonium ylide monomers by Mioskowski and coworkers in 2003.…”