Ring-Opening Polymerization of Silicon-Bridged Ferrocenophanes

RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION OF SILICON-BRIDGED [1]FERROCENOPHANES 

Condensation Routes to Main Chain Ferrocene-Organosilane Polymers 

Early attempts to prepare polymers of general structure 11 focused on reactions of dilithioferrocene-tmeda and appropriate dihaloorganosilanes. For example, in the late 1960s low molecular weight poly(ferrocenylsi-lanes) 11 (jc = I, R = Me or Ph) were prepared via condensation routes 

Condensation approaches to ferrocene/organosilane polymers have been extended to the synthesis of low molecular weight materials 11 (jc = 6, R = Me) with M 3500 from the reaction of dilithioferrocene-tmeda with the dichlorohexasilane Cl(SiMe2)6Cl (39). These polymers were shown to possess electrical conductivities in the range of 10 -10 S/cm 

Synthesis, Properties, and Ring-Opening Polymerization of Silicon-Bridged 1 ]Ferrocenophanes 

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Thermal Ring-opening Polymerization of Silicon-bridged Ferrocenophanes... 

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