Abstract
AbstractAnionic polymerization of butadiene or/and styrene is performed with lithium initiators, functional or not. The polymer chains are subsequently transferred to magnesium. The resulting polymeryl‐magnesium compounds were combined with {(Me2Si(C13H8)2)Nd(μ‐BH4)[(μ‐BH4)Li(THF)]}2 metallocene complex to act as macromolecular chain transfer agents (macroCTAs) in coordinative chain transfer polymerization (CCTP) of ethylene (E) or its copolymerization (CCTcoP) with butadiene (B). Block copolymers were produced for the first time by this switch from anionic polymerization to CCTP. Hard and soft blocks such as PB, polystyrene (PS), poly(styrene‐co‐butadiene) (SBR) obtained by anionic polymerization and PE or poly(ethylene‐co‐butadiene) (EBR) produced by CCT(co)P were combined and the corresponding structures were characterized.
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