Volume 44, Issue 9 pp. 2784-2793
Article

Design of PEO-based ruthenium carbene for aqueous metathesis polymerization. Synthesis by the “macromonomer method” and application in the miniemulsion metathesis polymerization of norbornene

Damien Quémener

Damien Quémener

Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, UMR CNRS-ENSCPB-Université Bordeaux-1, 16 avenue Pey-Berland, 33607 PESSAC Cedex, France

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Valérie Héroguez

Corresponding Author

Valérie Héroguez

Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, UMR CNRS-ENSCPB-Université Bordeaux-1, 16 avenue Pey-Berland, 33607 PESSAC Cedex, France

Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, UMR CNRS-ENSCPB-Université Bordeaux-1, 16 avenue Pey-Berland, 33607 PESSAC Cedex, FranceSearch for more papers by this author
Yves Gnanou

Yves Gnanou

Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, UMR CNRS-ENSCPB-Université Bordeaux-1, 16 avenue Pey-Berland, 33607 PESSAC Cedex, France

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First published: 08 March 2006
Citations: 42

Abstract

Novel water-soluble ruthenium carbene complexes with finely tuned structure and properties in solution are reported. These ruthenium-based initiators were found to exhibit great catalytic activity in aqueous miniemulsion ring-opening metathesis polymerization of norbornene. Stable particles of polynorbornene could be generated in the 200–250 nm size range stabilized with a nonionic surfactant (polystyrene-b-poly(ethylene oxide)). © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 2784–2793, 2006

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