E. Ihara et al., SYNTHESES OF MONODISPERSED METHYL-METHACRYLATE OLIGOMERS VIA ORGANOLANTHANIDE COMPLEXES AND INTRODUCTION OF HYDROXYL-GROUPS INTO THE OLIGOMER, Applied organometallic chemistry, 9(5-6), 1995, pp. 427-429
Methyl methacrylate (MMA) oligomers (M(n) similar or equal to 2500) wi
th a narrow molecular weight distribution (M(w)/M(n) < 1.10) were synt
hesized by using a Cp(2)SmMe(THF) initiator (Co=eta-C). The oligomeri
zation proceeds via a samarium enolate as the propagating species and
the reaction of the living oligomer with p-tolualdehyde produced p-tol
yl hydroxymethyl-terminated oligoMMA.