Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2019,15, 218–235, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.21
across double C=C bonds. The main techniques, actively developed during the last decade and discussed here, are the coupling of end-functionalized blocks, sequential ring-opening metathesis polymerization, and cross metathesis between unsaturated polymers, or macromolecularcrossmetathesis. The last
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Keywords: ADMET; macromolecularcrossmetathesis; multiblock copolymers; olefin metathesis; ROMP; Introduction
Nowadays, olefin metathesis has become a well-established field of organic and polymer chemistry. The discovery of metallocarbene initiators that are capable of catalyzing metathesis
-functionalized blocks, and macromolecularcrossmetathesis.
Review
Synthesis by sequential ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) provides an opportunity to use a well-established route to multiblock copolymers based on the repetitive addition of different
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Graphical Abstract
Scheme 1:
Multiblock copolymer synthesis by sequential ROMP, replotted from [51].