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ATRP/OMRP/CCT interplay in styrene polymerization mediated by iron(II) complexes: A DFT study of the α-diimine system

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A DFT study of various model systems has addressed the interference of catalytic chain transfer (CCT) as a function of the R2 substituent in the atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of styrene catalyzed by [FeCl2(R1N=C(R2)_C(R2)=NR1)] complexes. All model systems used R1=CH3 in place of the experimental Cy and tBu substituents and 1-phenylethyl in place of the polystyrene (PS) chain. A mechanistic investigation of 1) ATRP activation, 2) radical trapping in organometallic-mediated radical polymerization (OMRP), and 3) pathways to the hydride CCT intermediate was conducted with a simplified system with R2=H. This study suggests that CCT could occur by direct hydrogenatom transfer without any activation barrier. Further analysis of more realistic models with R2=p-C6H4F or p-C6H4NMe2 suggests that the electronic effect of the aryl para substituents significantly alters the ATRP activation barrier. Conversely, the hydrogen-atom-transfer barrier is essentially unaffected. Thus, the greater ATRP catalytic activity of the p-NMe2 system makes the background CCT process less significant. The DFT study also compares the [FeCl2(R1N=C(R2)_C(R2)=NR1)] systems with a diaminobis(phenolato) derivative for which the CCT process shows even greater accessibility but has less incidence because of faster ATRP chain growth and interplay with a more efficient OMRP trapping. The difference between the two systems is attributed to destabilization of the FeII catalyst by the geometric constraints of the tetradentate diaminobis(phenolato) ligand.
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hal-02023161 , version 1 (30-07-2021)

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Rinaldo Poli, Michael P Shaver. ATRP/OMRP/CCT interplay in styrene polymerization mediated by iron(II) complexes: A DFT study of the α-diimine system. Chemistry - A European Journal, 2014, 20 (52), pp.17530-17540. ⟨10.1002/chem.201404208⟩. ⟨hal-02023161⟩
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