| 초록 |
Highly controllable ruthenium catalysts were developed using readily available and versatile N-vinylsulfonamides as carbene precursors. Trifluoromethanesulfonamide-based catalysts initiated ultrarapidly even at temperatures as low as –60 °C and continuously propagated rapidly, enabling the enthalpically and entropically less-favored ring-opening metathesis polymerizations of low-strained functionalized cyclopentene derivatives, some of which are not accessible with previous olefin metathesis catalysts. To our surprise, the developed catalysts facilitated the polymerization of cyclopentadiene (CPD), a feedstock that is easily and commonly obtainable through the steam cracking of naphtha, which has, to the best of our knowledge, not been previously achieved due to its low ring strain and facile dimerization even at low temperatures (below 0 °C). |
