Summary: Solid‐state olefin metathesis of rigid‐rod acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymers and ring‐closing metathesis (RCM) have been investigated. 1,4‐Dipropoxy‐2,5‐divinylbenzene (4) was synthesized and used in a bulk ADMET polymerization to produce oligomers of dialkoxy poly(phenylene vinylene). The reaction was continued in the solid state, effectively doubling the molecular weight. Solid‐state RCM was investigated with a variety of solid dienes and metathesis catalysts, and demonstrated in low conversions using amide diene 5 with catalysts 9, 13, and 14.
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