Organoborane polymers have emerged as an important class of functional materials with applications ranging from supported reagents and catalysts to sensing and detection of anions and biologically relevant species, self-healing, preceramic, and organic electronic materials. This presentation outlines some of our recent efforts on the efficient preparation and applications of borane-functionalized polyolefins. Polymers containing Lewis acidic tricoordinate borane groups and Lewis basic pyridylborate moieties, their self-assembly and applications as sensory and stimuli-responsive materials will be discussed. We will also introduce a new type of BN-substituted polystyrenes.

New functional materials by modification of polyolefins with boron

254th National Meeting (2017)

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