First examples of homogenous catalytic cyclotrimerization and polymerization of phenylacetylene and copolymerization of phenylacetylne and norbornene with dinuclear complexes containing unbridged metal-metal quadruple bond

Abstract

Application of dinuclear complexes containing unbridged metal-metal quadruple bond as catalysts in cyclotrimerization and polymerization of substituted acetylenes is reported

Keywords

• cyclotrimerization
• dinuclear complexes
• metal-metal quadruple bond
• alkenes
• alkynes
• ROMP
• metathesis polymerization
• single component catalysts
• rhenium
• tungsten
• molybdenum