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Macromolecules, Vol.47, No.12, 3767-3774, 2014
ROMP Synthesis of Cobalticenium-Enamine Polyelectrolytes
The synthesis of redox-robust polyelectrolyte polymers has long been investigated. Two simple methods of synthesis of well-defined cobalticenium-containing polymers are presented using both the norbornene ring-opening-metathesis polymerization (ROMP) method initiated by a third-generation Grubbs catalyst and the mild uncatalyzed hydroamination of the easily available ethynyl cobalticenium hexafluorophosphate salt. In the first strategy, a norbornene monomer functionalized with an enamine-cobalticenium group is polymerized by ROMP, whereas in the second one a norbornene derivative functionalized with a secondary amine group is polymerized by ROMP using the same catalyst followed by hydroamination of ethynyl cobalticenium. The structures of the polymers have been established by H-1, C-13 NMR, and DOSY NMR, IR, UV-vis spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, and cyclic voltammetry. The number of units in the polymers have been determined for various polymer lengths using end-group analysis by H-1 NMR using the diffusion coefficient determined by DOSY NMR and by cyclic voltammetry upon comparing the relative intensities of a monomer reference and the cobalticenium polymers.