Haloboration-phenylboration polymerization

Figure 9 The -77-conjugated organoboron polymer (9) produced by haloboration-phenylboration polymerization between 2,7-diethynylflourene and Ph2BBr. (Adapted from ref. 29.)...

Conjugated organoboron polymers were prepared by haloboration-phenylboration polymerization between diyne monomers and bromodiphenylborane (scheme 29).54 The polymerization was carried out by adding a slight excess of bromodiphenylborane to a tetrachloroethane solution of diynes at room temperature... 

As depicted in Scheme 4, the treatment of 1,4-diethynylbenzene with 2eq. of diphenylbromoborane (selective haloboration) and the subsequent reaction with leq. of tolylene-2,4-diisocyanate (phenylboration polymerization) gives the corresponding alternating copolymers. 

A wide range of novel polymers with boron in the backbone have been prepared by means of boration polymerizations (65,70-82). Diynes can be polymerized by hydroboration (70,71), phenylboration (65), and haloboration (72) to yield polymers (14),(15), and (16) (eq. 17). When an appropriate aromatic or heteroaromatic diyne is used, the resulting polymers have been shown to have extended 7T-conjugation through the vacant p-orbital of the boron atom (73,74). In fact, several have been shown to exhibit blue fluorescence emission. 

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