Abstract
The potential of butadiene ditelomers for the synthesis of polymers has been investigated for the first time following two different approaches: acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization and thiol–ene polyaddition. The feasibility of both step-growth polymerization methods has been investigated by focusing on the particular polymerization behavior of these unusual monomers. It has been shown that ring-closing metathesis of the studied ditelomers predominates in the first steps of ADMET, followed by oligomerization and double bond isomerization. On the other hand, during thiol–ene polyaddition, additional isomerization reactions, converting allyl ether moieties to vinyl ether moieties, were observed. Generally, the thiol–ene polymerization approach led to higher molecular weight polymers with better characteristics and interesting material properties.
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