Chi-Tsing Chang, Chuanhuan Chen, Yi-Hong Liu
Aug 24, 2006
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Inorganic chemistry
Abstract
In searching for aqua sodium species acting as Brønsted acids in catalysis, we explored the phenomenon that sodium tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate dihydrate (NaBAr(F)4.2H2O) evidently provides one proton source to initiate the polymerization of vinyl ethers in anhydrous dichloromethane solutions. In addition, NaBAr(F)4 catalyzed efficiently in the polymerization of activated styrenes, such as p-methoxystyrene.