ISSN:
0894-3230
Keywords:
Organic Chemistry
;
Physical Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Physics
Notes:
The role of ester enolate anions in silicon-mediated polymerization (group transfer polymerization) of methyl methacrylate (MMA) was investigated using cesium, tetrabutylammonium and lithium salts of 9-methylfluorenide as the nucleophilic catalysts. The results of normal anionic polymerization of MMA using these carbanion salts were compared directly with those of analogous GTP procedures with these carbanions in the presence of the silyl ketene acetal initiator 1-methoxy-1-(trimethylsiloxy)-2-methylprop-1-ene (MTS). In the absence of MTS these reactions are characterized by low conversions (14-52%), no control of Mn and broad molecular weight distributions. In the presence of MTS, controlled MMA polymerization is observed with molecular weights calculated based on the moles of MTS and not fluorenide anion. The MMA stereochemistry was also determined for both anionic polymerization and GTP for the same counter ions (tetrabutylammonium, cesium, lithium); within experimental error, the triad tacticities are the same for anionic polymerization and GTP. It is concluded that these results are consistent with the ester enolate anions as propagating intermediates in nucleophile-catalyzed GTP. These results are consistent with an associative GTP mechanism only if it is postulated that the chemistry and stereochemistry of a pentacovalent siliconate anion are the same as those of an ester enolate anion intermediate.
Additional Material:
2 Tab.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/poc.610080407
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