Pure Appl. Chem., 2005, Vol. 77, No. 12, pp. 1991-2002
doi:10.1351/pac200577121991
Metal-catalyzed routes to rings, chains, and macromolecules based on inorganic elements*
Alexandra Bartole-Scott, Cory A. Jaska, and Ian Manners
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
Abstract:
In this perspective article, some of our recent work directed at the development of new catalytic routes to rings, chains, and macromolecules based on main group and transition elements will be discussed.
Keywords: Catalytic dehydrocoupling; inorganic polymers; Lewis acid–Lewis base adducts; polyferrocenes; ring-opening polymerization.
*Paper based on a presentation at the 7th IUPAC International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry (ICHAC-7), Shanghai, China, 21-25 August 2004. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 1985-2132.