Copolymerization carbon monoxide

Due to its practical importance as a cable material and due to its special position as a model polymer, polyethylene has been the subject of numerous dielectric studies. In coimnon with poly(vinylidene fluoride), polyethylene shows a complicated relaxation behaviour. Since the chain is intrinsically non-dipolar the material is oxidized, dil( inated or is made by copolymerizing carbon monoxide with ethylene, so that d les can be introduced to act as a probe on the motions of the parent material. Extensive accounts of the eady eiqjerimental wodc are available (McCrum et al.,... 

Carbon monoxide does not obey general copolymerization models. 

Copolymers of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide or carbon disulfide are frequently formed in combination with oxiranes, thiiranes or aziridines. Copolymerization of carbon monoxide and ethylenimine was carried out under radiation and the formation of 3-nylon was observed238. ... 

In the ethylene atmosphere, carbon monoxide and ethylenimine copolymerized with a radical initiator to form a terpolymer239. The following radical mechanism may be proposed ... 

Another interesting field is the utilization of unused resources such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, etc. Development of useful copolymers is expected to come by applying the modern techniques of polymer chemistry. Ring-opening copolymerization should be one of the most likely methods for this purpose. 

It has been shown by Barb and by Dainton and Ivin that a 1 1 complex formed from the unsaturated monomer (n-butene or styrene) and sulfur dioxide, and not the latter alone, figures as the comonomer reactant in vinyl monomer-sulfur dioxide polymerizations. Thus the copolymer composition may be interpreted by assuming that this complex copolymerizes with the olefin, or unsaturated monomer. The copolymerization of ethylene and carbon monoxide may similarly involve a 1 1 complex (Barb, 1953). 

The insertion of unsaturated molecules into metal-carbon bonds is a critically important step in many transition-metal catalyzed organic transformations. The difference in insertion propensity of carbon-carbon and carbon-nitrogen multiple bonds can be attributed to the coordination characteristics of the respective molecules. The difficulty in achieving a to it isomerization may be the reason for the paucity of imine insertions. The synthesis of amides by the insertion of imines into palladium(II)-acyl bonds is the first direct observation of the insertion of imines into bonds between transition metals and carbon (see Scheme 7). The alternating copolymerization of imines with carbon monoxide (in which the insertion of the imine into palladium-acyl bonds would be the key step in the chain growth sequence), if successful, should constitute a new procedure for the synthesis of polypeptides (see Scheme 7).348... 

Palladium(II) complexes possessing bidentate ligands are known to efficiently catalyze the copolymerization of olefins with carbon monoxide to form polyketones.594-596 Sulfur dioxide is an attractive monomer for catalytic copolymerizations with olefins since S02, like CO, is known to undergo facile insertion reactions into a variety of transition metal-alkyl bonds. Indeed, Drent has patented alternating copolymerization of ethylene with S02 using various palladium(II) complexes.597 In 1998, Sen and coworkers also reported that [(dppp)PdMe(NCMe)]BF4 was an effective catalyst for the copolymerization of S02 with ethylene, propylene, and cyclopentene.598 There is a report of the insertion reactions of S02 into PdII-methyl bonds and the attempted spectroscopic detection of the copolymerization of ethylene and S02.599... 

Copolymerization of Epoxides and Aziridines with Carbon Monoxide... 

PALLADIUM-CATALYZED ALTERNATING COPOLYMERIZATION OF ALKENES AND CARBON MONOXIDE... 

Drent, E. van Broekhoven, J. A. M. Doyle, M. J. Wong, P. K. Palladium Catalyzed Copolymerization of Carbon Monoxide with Alkenes to Alternating Polyketones and Polyspiroketals. Fink, G. Muelhaupt, R. Brintzinger, H. H. Eds. Ziegler Catal. Springer, Berlin, 1995, pp 481 496. 

The copolymerization of carbon monoxide and a-olefins is one of the most challenging problems in polymer synthesis. Sen and his coworkers discovered that some cationic palladium compounds catalyze this alternative copolymerization, giving polyketones (Eq. 13). 

This industrial process remains essentially unchanged from the 1950s [25], Here, a free-radical initiator is added to the ethylene monomer at supercritical conditions (276 MPa and 200-300 °C). The polyethylene remains in the supercritical solution until the pressure is lowered to around 5 MPa, whereupon it precipitates. A range of other monomers can be copolymerized, including carbon monoxide to give polyketones, as shown in Scheme 10.19 [26],... 

There is a tendency toward alternation in the copolymerization of ethylene with carbon monoxide. Copolymerizations of carbon monoxide with tetrafluoroethylene, vinyl acetate, vinyl chloride, and acrylonitrile have been reported but with few details [Starkweather, 1987]. The reactions of alkenes with oxygen and quinones are not well defined in terms of the stoichiometry of the products. These reactions are better classified as retardation or inhibition reactions because of the very slow copolymerization rates (Sec. 3-7a). Other copolymerizations include the reaction of alkene monomers with sulfur and nitroso compounds [Green et al., 1967 Miyata and Sawada, 1988]. 

Bis(oxazoline) ligands have also been used to produce polymers containing main chain chirality. Some examples include those by Wagner and co-workers in which /-pr-box 45 is used to mediate the copolymerization of tert-butylstyrene 192 with carbon monoxide to achieve a polymer of type 193 with stereoregularity up to 98%, ° ° Oishi and co-workers polymerization of A-substimted maleimides... 

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