Reaction termination reagent

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We have decorated different generations of polyphenylene dendrimers based on a biphenyl core with up to 16 perylenemonoimide chromophores at the periphery [67]. This has been achieved via the Diels-Alder reaction of a perylenemonoimide functionalized cyclopentadienone as a terminating reagent with the ethynyl precursor dendrimers. A strongly emitting nanoparticle is thus obtained. 

The published values of related to olefin polymerization with soluble and heterogeneous catalysts are in the range from several seconds to hours 7). It should be noted that the value of is strongly dependent upon the polymerization conditions since the rates of chain-terminating reactions Rt are functions of the temperature and concentrations of chain-terminating reagents. In a living polymerization the value of is infinite. 

Incubate the tubes at 30°C for 15 min. Then initiate the reactions with 100 pi of 0.036 M carbamyl phosphate. After 30 min of reaction, terminate each reaction (in the order they were initiated) with 1 ml 2% perchloric acid, and develop the color in the assay tubes (along with a set of carbamyl asparate standards) by adding 3.0 ml of freshly prepared color reagent as described above. 

Considering the selectivity of this reaction (terminal vs. 1,2-disubstituted alkenes) and the fact that an electron-rich alkene such as isobutyl vinyl ether does not undergo cyclopropanation, it seems that the reactive species formed from the lithiated sulfone and the nickel catalyst does not behave as an electrophilic carbenoid. In this respect, one should note that the Simmons-Smith reagent is electrophilic whereas the methylene transfer reagent arising from treatment of dibromomethane with nickel(O) can achieve cyclopropanation of electron-deficient alkenes only. ... 

Therefore, all requirements for living polymerization seem to be satisfied, at least in a practical sense, in the microflow system controlled cationic polymerization. The livingness strongly depends on the reaction time. In a very short period of time highly reactive intermediates, in this case reactive propagating polymer ends, can survive and they can be utilized for subsequent reactions when different monomers or a terminating reagent are added. This concept is quite similar to that discussed in Section 6.3. 

The method of reaction termination by a radioactive reagent was used to analyze the MWD of living polymer chains. By combining GPC with a scintillation counter (additional detector), one can in this case simultaneously obtain separate gel chromatograms of the overall product and of the growing macromolecules. In the latter case the numerical function of MWD is obtained. 

The first method of transformation of living ROMP into controlled/ living ATRP was reported by Matyjaszewski for the preparation of diblock copolymers. Thus, macroinitiators were prepared by ROMP of norbomene (Scheme 5) or dicyclopentadiene and subsequent Wittig-like reactions with /7-(bromomethyl)benzaldehyde. In these cases, the ROMP of norbomene was terminated with a terminating reagent that could also function as an ATRP initiator. Thus, these compounds were used as efficient macroinitiators for homogeneous controlled/ living ATRP to prepare block copolymers with styrene and methyl acrylate (Scheme 6) [21]. 

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