Pl. Vidal et al., CONJUGATED POLYROTAXANES CONTAINING COORDINATING UNITS - REVERSIBLE COPPER(I) METALATION-DEMETALATION USING LITHIUM AS INTERMEDIATE SCAFFOLDING, Chemical communications, (5), 1998, pp. 629-630
A new polyrotaxane containing a conjugated backbone has been synthesiz
ed via a copper(I) template and electropolymerisation; after decomplex
ation of Cu-I, remetallation is only possible if lithium is present du
ring copper removal, as labile scaffolding able to prevent collapse of
the free coordination sites and of the organic matrix.