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A novel and convenient route to ring‐opened poly(ferrocenylsilanes) with alkoxy, aryloxy, and amino substituents at silicon
Author(s) -
Nguyen Paul,
Lough Alan J.,
Manners Ian
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
macromolecular rapid communications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1521-3927
pISSN - 1022-1336
DOI - 10.1002/marc.1997.030181101
Subject(s) - alkoxy group , silicon , polymer chemistry , ring (chemistry) , acceptor , halogen , chemistry , polymerization , organic chemistry , polymer , alkyl , physics , condensed matter physics
A novel and convenient route to the first poly(ferrocenylsilanes) with alkoxy, aryloxy, and amino substituents at silicon is reported. The reaction sequence involves (i) unexpectedly facile and clean halogen replacement at the bridging atom of a readily accessible dichlorosilyl‐bridged [1]ferrocenophane by OR, OAr, and NR 2 groups via reactions with aliphatic and aromatic alcohols and amines in the presence of an HCl acceptor and (ii) thermal or transition metal catalyzed ring‐opening polymerization of the new ferrocenophane.