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Macromolecules, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2010 935
Scheme 1. Synthesis and Polymerization of AB and AB2 Monomer
mixture was again heated to reflux for 2 h. After the mixture was
cooled to room temperature, 10 mL of a saturated NH4Cl
solution was carefully added. The white precipitate was dis-
solved by adding 10 mL of water. The organic phase was
separated, washed with water and a saturated NaCl solution,
dried over MgSO4, and concentrated in vacuo. The crude
product was purified by column chromatography (pentane,
pentane/ethyl acetate 98:2, Rf (pentane) = 0.11) to yield 2.03
g (65%) of the product as a colorless liquid. 1H NMR (CDCl3,
300.13 MHz): δ = 7.49 (d, 3JHH = 7.60 Hz, 4H, Ar-H), 7.21 (d,
of chloromethyldimethylsilane was added to the solution.
Karstedt’s catalyst was added, and the mixture was stirred at
60 °C for 12 h. After evaporation of the solvent, the residue
was dissolved in 1 mL of chloroform and precipitated from
cold methanol. The polymer was filtered off and dried in
vacuo to yield 90 mg of a brownish solid.
For the hydroboration, 0.50 g (double bond content:
1.6 mmol) of the polymer was dissolved in 15 mL of dry THF,
the mixture was cooled to -10 °C, and 6.5 mL of a 9-BBN
solution (3.2 mmol, 0.5 M solution in THF) was added slowly.
The mixture was stirred at -10 °C for 3 h and at room
temperature overnight. For oxidation, the solution was cooled
to -10 °C again and 4 mL of a 6 N solution of NaOH followed
by 5 mL of a 30% aqueous solution of H2O2 was added. After
being stirred for 1 h at -10 °C, the mixture was allowed to warm
to room temperature and stirred at 50 °C for another hour. The
mixture was cooled to room temperature and the organic phase
was separated, washed with a saturated solution of NaCl three
times, dried over MgSO4 and the solvent was removed in vacuo.
The residue was dissolved in 2 mL of chloroform again and
precipitated from cold methanol. The polymer was filtered off
and dried in vacuo to give 0.41 g of a colorless sticky solid.
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3JHH = 7.60 Hz, 4H, Ar-H), 5.87 (ddt, JHH = 6.54, 10.18,
16.92 Hz, 2H, H2CdCH-), 5.02 (m, 4H, H2CdCH-), 4.91 (q,
3
3JHH = 3.78 Hz, 1H, Si-H), 2.72 (t, JHH = 8.40 Hz, 4H,
3
Ar-CH2-), 2.38 (m, 4H, Ar-CH2-CH2-), 0.60 (d, JHH
=
3.84 Hz, 3H, Si-CH3). 13C NMR (75.47 MHz): δ = 143.3,
138.0, 134.9, 132.4, 128.1, 114.9, 35.4, 35.3, -4.9. 29Si NMR
(59.63 MHz): δ = -17.9. Anal. Calcd for C21H26Si: C, 82.29;
H, 8.55; Si, 9.16. Found: C, 82.40; H, 9.02; Si, 10.02. GC-MS
(M - Hþ): calcd, 305.17; found, 305.18.
AB Monomer 4-(But-3-enyl)phenyldimethylsilane (1b). The
AB monomer was synthesized analogously to the AB2 monomer
by reaction of 0.36 g of magnesium (0.015 mol), 3.15 g of
1-bromo-4-(but-3-enyl)benzene (0.015 mol), and 1.41 g of
chlorodimethylsilane (0.015 mol). The crude product was puri-
fied by column chromatography (pentane, Rf = 0.38) to yield
2.12 g (75%) of the product as a colorless liquid. 1H NMR
Results and Discussion
One of the possibilities to synthesize hyperbranched polymers
is the polyaddition of ABx monomers (x g 2). For hyperbranched
polycarbosilanes the AB2 monomers require, for example, one
Si-H group and two double bonds. We synthesized bis(4-(but-
3-enyl)phenyl)methylsilane (1a) as a novel AB2 monomer and
(4-(but-3-enyl)phenyl)dimethylsilane (1b) as its AB monomer
analogue by two consecutive Grignard reactions each starting
from 4-bromobenzyl bromide (see Scheme 1). The monomers
were purified by flash chromatography and obtained in good
yields. We chose this monomer structure with an aryl spacer
between silicon and double bond because simpler spacers like
alkyl spacers lead to problems. Medium length alkyl spacers
result in cyclization instead of polymerization and longer spacers
are not as easily accessible.
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(CDCl3, 300.13 MHz): δ = 7.48 (d, JHH = 8.01 Hz, 2H,
=
Ar-H), 7.21 (d, 3JHH = 8.10 Hz, 2H, Ar-H), 5.88 (ddt, 3JHH
6.54, 10.19, 16.83 Hz, 1H, H2CdCH-), 5.03 (m, 2H,
3
H2CdCH-), 4.43 (m, 1H, Si-H), 2.72 (t, JHH = 8.98 Hz,
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2H, Ar-CH2-), 2.39 (dt, JHH = 7.05, 14.16 Hz, 2H,
3
Ar-CH2-CH2-), 0.34 (d, JHH = 3.60 Hz, 6H, Si-CH3).
13C NMR (75.47 MHz): δ = 143.0, 138.0, 134.3, 134.1, 128.0,
114.9, 35.3, -3.7. 29Si NMR: (CDCl3, 59.63 MHz): δ (ppm) =
-17.2. Anal. Calcd for C12H18Si: C, 75.71; H, 9.53; Si, 14.75.
Found: C, 75.28; H, 9.35; Si, 13.42. GC-MS (M - Hþ): calcd,
189.11; found, 189.19
General Polymerization Procedure. In a Schlenk flask, 0.25 g
of the monomer was dissolved in 3 mL of dry solvent and the
catalyst was added. The reaction mixture was stirred at 60 °C for
24 h (48 h when using the Pt-NHC catalyst). After the mixture
had cooled to room temperature, the solvent was removed
in vacuum. Reactions using Karstedt’s catalyst (substrate to
catalyst ratio = 10000/1) or the Pt-NHC complex (1000/1)
were conducted in dry toluene, reactions with Speier’s catalyst
(100/1) were performed in dry isopropanol. The polymers were
obtained as sticky, colorless to brownish liquids to solids,
depending on the degree of polymerization and the catalyst
used. For NMR assignment of the polymer signals, see the
Supporting Information.
For polymerization of the monomers three different catalysts
were employed. Apart from the well-known Speier (2) and Karstedt
(3) systems, one of the N-heterocyclic carbene platinum(0) com-
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plexes developed by Marko et al. was also utilized for hydrosilyla-
tion (see Figure 1). We decided to use (N,N’-bis(2,4,6-trimethyl-
phenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene)platinum(divinyltetramethyldisiloxane)
(4) (Pt-NHC) because of its reported high selectivity and reacti-
vity. The complex was synthesized according to the known
literature procedure.10
All polymerization reactions with Karstedt’s catalyst and the
Pt-NHC complex were conducted in toluene at 60 °C, the
reactions using the Speier system were performed in isopropanol
at the same temperature. Table 1 summarizes the polymerization
Functionalization of polymers. For the hydrosilylation,
0.10 g (double bond content: 0.33 mmol) of the polymer
was dissolved in 5 mL of dry toluene and 0.35 g (3.3 mmol)