Azide-Capped Poly(alkoxycarbonylmethylene)s for Click Chemistry: Their Syntheses by 2-Bromoethanol-Mediated Chain Transfer Polymerization of Diazoacetate Followed by Azidation
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Abstract An effective method for incorporating an azide group at an initiating chain end of poly(alkoxycarbonylmethylene) (PACM) is presented. Polymerization of diazoacetate using π-allylPdCl(Py) (Py = pyridine) as an initiator in the presence of 2-bromoethanol as a chain transfer agent (CTA) afforded a Br-capped PACM, which was subjected to nucleophilic substitution with tetrabutylammonium azide (TBAAZ) to yield an N3-capped PACM. The efficient progress of the two-step transformation was confirmed by chain-end characterization with MALDI-TOF-MS analyses. The use of additional pyridine was found to promote the ligand exchange from Pd–Cl to Pd–OCH2CH2Br, thus enabling us to prepare well-defined N3-capped PACMs with Mn in the range of 3000–5000. The utility of the N3-capped PACMs was demonstrated by the preparation of a 4-armed C1-star polymer containing PACM arms via a click reaction of the chain-end azide with a tetra-alkyne-substituted compound.
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