Zhao Yanan, Luo Gen, Kang Xiaohui, Guo Fang, Zhu Xuefeng, Zheng Rencheng, Hou Zhaomin, Luo Yi
State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jun 6;55(47):6689-6692. doi: 10.1039/c9cc02165e.
DFT calculations disclosed that the stereoselectivity of Sc-catalysed polymerization of halogenated styrenes could be co-regulated via C-Hπ interactions between a coordinating THF and the phenyl ring of a monomer. Such a regulatory mechanism was theoretically confirmed by further studying the polymerization of various monomers, where the stereoselectivity could even shift from syndiotacticity to isotacticity.