Living Anionic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Unsymmetrically Substituted Silicon-Bridged [1]Ferrocenophanes; A Route to Organometallic Block Copolymers with Amorphous Poly(ferrocenylsilane) Blocks

Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 189-198

  Temple, Karen ^a   Massey, Jason A ^a   Chen, Zhihao ^b   Vaidya, Nitin ^b   Berenbaum, Andrea ^a   Foster, Mark D ^b   Manners, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Anionic polymerization; Block copolymer; Nanostructures; Poly(ferrocene); Ring opening polymerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000811556     PISSN: 10530495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021793622713     Document Type: Article

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