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Generation of High‐Molecular‐Weight Polymers with Diverse Substituents: An Unusual Metal‐Free Synthesis of Poly(aminoborane)s
Author(s) -
Staubitz Anne
Publication year - 2018
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.201801903
Subject(s) - chemistry , polymer , catalysis , amine gas treating , polymer chemistry , polymerization , metal , nitrogen , nitrogen atom , combinatorial chemistry , organic chemistry , group (periodic table)
A new concept has been introduced for the preparation of high‐molecular‐weight poly(aminoborane)s with diverse substituents on the nitrogen atom. Whereas previous methods were oxidative and relied largely on catalytic dehydrocoupling, the new process is based on an uncatalysed polymerisation reaction promoted by amine–aminoborane exchange, and should give access to previously inaccessible polymers.