Ethers sulfides

The key initiation step in cationic polymerization of alkenes is the formation of a carbocationic intermediate, which can then interact with excess monomer to start propagation. We studied in some detail the initiation of cationic polymerization under superacidic, stable ion conditions. Carbocations also play a key role, as I found not only in the acid-catalyzed polymerization of alkenes but also in the polycondensation of arenes as well as in the ring opening polymerization of cyclic ethers, sulfides, and nitrogen compounds. Superacidic oxidative condensation of alkanes can even be achieved, including that of methane, as can the co-condensation of alkanes and alkenes. 

Radicofunctional nomenclature finds some use in naming ethers, sulfides, sulfoxides, sulfones, selenium analogs of the preceding three sulfur compounds, and azides. 

Researchers at Du Pont used hydroquinone asymmetrically substituted with chloro, methyl, or phenyl substituents and swivel or nonlinear bent substituted phenyl molecules such as 3,4- or 4,4 -disubstituted diphenyl ether, sulfide, or ketone monomers. Eor example,... 

Polymers, metals, ceramics, and glasses may be utilized as biomaterials. Polymers (see Ppolymerprocessing), an important class of biomaterials, vary gready in stmcture and properties. The fundamental stmcture may be one of a carbon chain, eg, in polyethylene or Tedon, or one having ester, ether, sulfide, or amide bond linkages. PolysiHcones, having a —Si—O—Si— backbone, may contain no carbon. 

Poly(vinyhdene chloride) also dissolves readily in certain solvent mixtures (82). One component must be a sulfoxide or A/,Al-diaIk5lamide. Effective cosolvents are less polar and have cycHc stmctures. They include aUphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, ethers, sulfides, and ketones. Acidic or hydrogen-bonding solvents have an opposite effect, rendering the polar aprotic component less effective. Both hydrocarbons and strong hydrogen-bonding solvents are nonsolvents for PVDC. 

Methyl bromide slowly hydrolyzes in water, forming methanol and hydrobromic acid. The bromine atom of methyl bromide is an excellent leaving group in nucleophilic substitution reactions and is displaced by a variety of nucleophiles. Thus methyl bromide is useful in a variety of methylation reactions, such as the syntheses of ethers, sulfides, esters, and amines. Tertiary amines are methylated by methyl bromide to form quaternary ammonium bromides, some of which are active as microbicides. 

Recently, Kricheldorf and Jahnke [108] reported pyridine and pyridazine containing poly(ether-sulfide)s by... 

While there is clear evidence for complex formation between certain electron donor and electron acceptor monomers, the evidence for participation of such complexes in copolymerization is often less compelling. One of the most studied systems is S-.V1 Al I copolymerization/8 75 However, the models have been applied to many copolymerizations of donor-acceptor pairs. Acceptor monomers have substituents such as carboxy, anhydride, ester, amide, imide or nitrile on the double bond. Donor monomers have substituents such as alkyl, vinyl, aryl, ether, sulfide and silane. A partial list of donor and acceptor monomers is provided in Table 7.6.65.-... 

Alkylene ether-sulfide —CH2CH20—CH2CH2S— Linear polymer ... 

This technique is especially useful for the preparation of a-lithio ethers, sulfides, and silanes.36 The lithium radical anions of naphthalene, 4, 4/-di-f-butyldiphenyl (DTBB) or dimethylaminonaphthalene (LDMAN) are used as the reducing agent. 

H and13C NMR Data. Some typical proton and carbon NMR data for trifluoromethyl ethers, sulfides, and esters are given in Scheme 5.11. Continuing the trend observed going from CH2F to CF2H to CF3 carbons, the 13C chemical shift of a trifluoromethyl ether is actually more shielded (by about 5 ppm) than that of a trifluoromethyl hydrocarbon. Scheme 5.12 summarizes the relative impact of an ether substituent upon the chemical shifts of various fluorinated carbons. 

We initiated our work by examining nucleophilic aromatic substitution, a somewhat difficult reaction to effect in other than activated aryl halides as substrates. It occurred to us that if polyhaloaromatics could be made to suffer disubstitution under mild solid-liquid PTC conditions, then they might be used as comonomers with a variety of bisnucliophiles to prepare halogenated polyaryl-ethers, sulfides, sulfone-ethers as well as other interesting polymers which are at present synthesized only with some difficulty. 

PDI = 1.5) when carried out at —15°C [Katayama et al., 2001]. The reaction converts to LCP with PDI <1.2 when the polymerization temperature is lowered to —78°C or tetra-n-butylammonium chloride is added. Mild nucleophiles such as esters, ethers, sulfides, and pyr-idines are also useful to decelerate the reaction rate, narrow PDI, and yield LCP [Aoshima and Higashimura, 1989 Cho et al., 1990 Kishimoto et al., 1989]. 

Oxidations of Amines, Amides, Ethers, Sulfides, Phosphines, Arsines, Stibines and Miscellaneous Substrates... 

Ethers, sulfides, amines, carbonyl compounds, and imines are among the frequently encountered Lewis bases in the ylide formation from such metal carbene complex. The metal carbene in the ylide formation can be divided into stable Fisher carbene complex and unstable reactive metal carbene intermediates. The reaction of the former is thus stoichiometric and the latter is usually a transition metal complex-catalyzed reaction of a-diazocarbonyl compounds. The decomposition of a-diazocarbonyl compounds with catalytic transition metal complex has been the most widely used approach to generate reactive metal carbenes. For compressive reviews, see Refs 1,1a. 

Table 6. Cycloaddition of Ketenes to Enol Ethers, Sulfides and Enamines3...

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