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Relationship between One‐Electron Transition‐Metal Reactivity and Radical Polymerization Processes
Author(s) -
Poli Rinaldo
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200503785
Subject(s) - polymerization , cobalt mediated radical polymerization , chain transfer , chemistry , radical polymerization , photochemistry , reversible addition−fragmentation chain transfer polymerization , living free radical polymerization , ionic polymerization , reactivity (psychology) , polymer chemistry , catalysis , organic chemistry , polymer , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Controlled radical polymerization has come along in leaps and bounds following the development of efficient transition‐metal catalysts for atom‐transfer radical polymerization. Another type of controlled radical polymerization process, namely organometallic radical polymerization, uses the reversible formation of metal–carbon bonds. Metals are also implicated in catalytic chain transfer, a process that involves the abstraction of hydrogen atoms. This Minireview discusses the importance of one‐electron transition‐metal reactivity in metal‐mediated controlled radical polymerization processes.