Open AccessCover Image, Volume 54, Issue 6
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of polymer science part a: polymer chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.768
H-Index - 152
eISSN - 1099-0518
pISSN - 0887-624X
DOI - 10.1002/pola.28037
Subject(s) - cover (algebra) , polystyrene , polymerization , polymer science , perylene , polymer chemistry , hydrosilylation , polymer , chemistry , materials science , catalysis , organic chemistry , molecule , mechanical engineering , engineering
On page 735 (DOI: 10.1002/pola.27923 ), Fang Guo, Bai Wang, Hongwei Ma, Tingting Li, and Yang Li discuss the synthesis of Si–H‐containing syndiotactic polystyrene by the direct polymerization of 4‐vinyiphenyldimethylsilanol in the presence of a half‐sandwich scandium catalyst system [(C 5 Me 4 SiMe 3 )Sc(CH 2 C 6 H 4 NMe 2 ‐ o ) 2 ]/[Ph 3 C][B(C 6 F 5 ) 4 ]. Using this one‐step, efficient hydrosilylation reaction, the perylene bisimide units were quantitatively linked to the Si–H‐containing syndiotactic polystyrene backbone. The perylene bisimide units functionalized syndiotactic polystyrene exhibits liquid crystallinity, fluorescence, and electron transport properties.