Synfacts 2007(12): 1260-1260  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-991364
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A Controlling Neighbor

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager
S. Motokucho, A. Sudo, T. Endo*
Kinki University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Publication History

Publication Date:
22 November 2007 (online)

Significance

Living polymerizations to produce highly functionalized polymers are not abundant. This polymerization produces a dithiocarbonate main chain and a carbamate pendant group. The structure of the polymer is precise and is free from other isomers that can be observed in systems that lack the stabilized cationic intermediates.