Isocyanides homopolymerisation

One should add, in relation to this, that catalysts that are applicable for carbon monoxide copolymerisation and isocyanide homopolymerisation are of a different nature, since they exhibit the capability of coordinating the monomer via complexes involving n° orbitals of these monomers. [Pg.433]

Similar behaviour to carbon monoxide is displayed by other heterounsatur-ated monomers of carbene-like structure, isocyanides, which homopolymerise in the presence of nickel-based catalysts, yielding polymers with a carbon-carbon main chain, poly(iminomethylene)s [60],... [Pg.11]

The exceptional behaviour of heterounsaturated monomers of carbene-like structure, such as carbon monoxide and isocyanides, should be remembered here. Carbon monoxide readily undergoes copolymerisation with various unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers via coordination with transition metals [2]. By contrast, isocyanides are homopolymerised via coordination with a... [Pg.425]

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