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Four-coordinate iron complexes bearing alpha-diimine ligands: efficient catalysts for atom transfer radical
Vernon C Gibson1, Rachel K O'Reilly, Warren Reed
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, UK SW7 2AY. v.gibson@ic.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 26, 2002
Abstract:
Four-coordinate iron(II) complexes bearing alpha-diimine ligands with alkyl substituents are shown to be efficient catalysts for the well-controlled atom transfer radical polymerisation of styrene; catalysts containing aryldiimine ligands support competitive beta-hydrogen chain transfer processes.