Direct arylation has emerged as a 'green' approach to carbon-carbon bond formation with high atom economy. However, this chemistry has not been readily applied to polymerization reactions. Therefore, we utilized small-molecule model systems to develop palladium-catalyzed conditions for direct arylation polymerization. More recently, we have applied these optimized conditions to a variety of conjugated monomers. Both studies, optimization and substrate scope, will be presented in detail.

Optimization and substrate scope for direct arylation polymerization

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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