INTRODUCTION Ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) represents a versatile synthetic method enabling molecular engineering of a wide variety of polymeric materials for diversified applications. 1,2 Owing to the robustness of the ruthenium-based Grubbs' catalysts, 3,4 both non-polar cyclic olefin monomers and monomers bearing functional groups are tolerated in the ROMP process. The most common ROMP monomers include cyclic olefins such as cyclooctene, [5][6][7][8][9] and norbornene derivatives. [10][11][12] Today, the ROMP process is of particular interest in block and graft copolymer synthesis. semicrystalline polybutadiene-block-isotactic polystyrene (iPS) as semicrystalline rubber block copolymers by means of the living styrene/butadiene copolymerization on isospecific titanate complexes using sequenced feed of styrene and butadiene. Herein, we report on the synthesis of polycyclooctene-b-iPS (PCO-b-iPS) copolymers prepared by means of cyclooctene ROMP using vinyl-terminated iPS (vinyl-iPS) as the CTA, which is readily available by isospecific styrene polymerization in the presence of 1,9-decadiene.
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MaterialsAll reactions involving air-and/or moisture-sensitive compounds were carried out under a dry argon atmosphere using standard Schlenk techniques and a glove box (MBraun MB 150B-G-II). Ethyl vinyl ether (99%), 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol (BHT) and the Grubbs first Generation Catalyst benzylidene-bis(tricyclohexylphosphine)dichlororuthenium (G1) were purchased from Sigma and used as received. Ciscyclooctene (Sigma) was dried over CaH 2 and distilled under reduced pressure. Toluene (Sigma) was purified by using a Vacuum Atmospheres Co. solvent purifier. Vinyl-iPS was synthesized with the methylaluminoxane-activated metallocene
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