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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 21, Issue 50, Pages 18177-18186Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503248
Keywords
cyclic voltammetry; metallopolymers; nanoparticles; pentamethylferrocene; ring-opening-metathesis polymerization
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- National Science Foundation of China [21106088]
- Ph.D. Program Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China [20110181120079]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- University of Bordeaux
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We report the first pentamethylferrocene (PMF) polymers and the redox chemistry of their robust polycationic pentamethylferricenium (PMFium) analogues. The PMF polymers were synthesized by ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of a PMF-containing norbornene derivative by using the third-generation Grubbs ruthenium metathesis catalyst. Cyclic voltammetry studies allowed us to determine confidently the number of monomer units in the polymers through the Bard-Anson method. Stoichiometric oxidation by using ferricenium hexafluorophosphate quantitatively and instantaneously provided fully stable (even in aerobic solutions) blue d(5) Fe-III metallopolymers. Alternatively, oxidation of the PMF-containing polymers was conducted by reactions with Ag-I or Au-III, to give PMFium polymer-embedded Ag and Au nanoparticles (NPs). In the presence of I-2, oxidation by using Ag-I gave polymer-embedded Ag/AgI NPs and AgNPs at the surface of AgI NPs. Oxidation by using Au-III also produced an Au-I intermediate that was trapped and characterized. Engineered single-electron transfer reactions of these redox-robust nanomaterial precursors appear to be a new way to control their formation, size, and environment in a supramolecular way.
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