ESI-MS Studies in Palladium-Catalyzed Polymerization Reactions

The ESI-MS technique, together with NMR and IR spectroscopy, has also been used in order to understand the mechanism operative for the synthesis of acrylonitrile polymers by insertion polymerization using palladium catalysts [57]. Six types of [L2PdCH3] palladium catalysts, where L were bidentate N-donor ligands 79c and 83-87, were used in this study. The nitrogen ligands were chosen to evaluate the 

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support received for our own research from the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain (Project no. CTQ2008-05409-C02), Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR637), and the contribution made by 

2 Negishi, E. (ed.) (2002) Handbook of Organopalladium Chemistry for Organic Synthesis, John Wiley Sons, Inc., 

15 For a review on diazonium salts in palladium chemistry, see (a) Roglans, A., Pla-Quintana, A., and Moreno-Manas, M., 

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