Boron-containing alternating polymers

The above mentioned polymer-supported oxazaborolidines are prepared from polymeric amino alcohols and borane. Another preparation of polymer-supported oxazaborolidines is based on the reaction of polymeric boronic acid with chiral amino alcohol. This type of polymer can be prepared only by chemical modification. Lithiation of the polymeric bromide then successive treatment with trimethyl borate and hydrochloric acid furnished polymer beads containing arylboronic acid residues 31. Treatment of this polymer with (li ,2S)-(-)-norephedrine and removal of the water produced gave the polymer-supported oxazaborolidine 32 (Eq. 14) [41 3]. If a,a-diphenyl-2-pyrrolidinemetha-nol was used instead of norephedrine the oxazaborolidine polymer 33 was obtained. The 2-vinylthiophene-styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer, 34, has been used as an alternative to the polystyrene support, because the thiophene moiety is easily lithiated with n-butyl-lithium and can be further functionalized. The oxazaborolidinone polymer 37 was then obtained as shown in Sch. 2. Enantioselectivities obtained by use of these polymeric oxazaborolidines were similar to those obtained by use of the low-molecular-weight counterpart in solution. For instance, acetophenone was reduced enantioselectively to 1-phe-nylethanol with 98 % ee in the presence of 0.6 equiv. polymer 33. Partial elimination of... 

Inorganic polymers have backbone chains that do not contain carbon, as organic polymers do, but atoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, boron, silicon, and metals or alternating combinations of them. The side groups attached... 

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