Activated Halide Redox Initiation of Butadiene with Late and Early Transition Metals

摘要

Living radical polymerization (LRP) enables control over molecular weight and polydispersity has been widely applied in the synthesis of complex macromolecular structures. While catalytic systems based on late transition metals were successful in LRP mediated by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) dissociation-combination (DC) and degenerative transfer (DT) and initiated from activated halides or thermal initiators, a broader selection of initiators and catalysts is still needed for the controlled polymerization of certain monomers