@article {35401,
	title = {Sulfenate anions as organocatalysts for benzylic chloromethyl coupling polymerization via C=C bond formation},
	journal = {Nature CommunicationsNature Communications},
	volume = {9},
	number = {1},
	year = {2018},
	month = {2018/05/01},
	pages = {1754},
	abstract = {Organocatalytic polymerization reactions have a number of advantages over their metal-catalyzed counterparts, including environmental friendliness, ease of catalyst synthesis and storage, and alternative reaction pathways. Here we introduce an organocatalytic polymerization method called benzylic chloromethyl-coupling polymerization (BCCP). BCCP is catalyzed by organocatalysts not previously employed in polymerization processes (sulfenate anions), which are generated from bench-stable sulfoxide precatalysts. The sulfenate anion promotes an umpolung polycondensation via step-growth propagation cycles involving sulfoxide intermediates. BCCP represents an example of an organocatalyst that links monomers by C=C double bond formation and offers transition metal-free access to a wide variety of polymers that cannot be synthesized by traditional precursor routes.},
	isbn = {2041-1723},
	author = {Li, Minyan and Berritt, Simon and Wang, Carol and Xiaodong Yang and Yang Liu and Sha, Sheng-Chun and Bo Wang and Rui Wang and Gao, Xuyu and Li, Zhanyong and Xinyuan Fan and Tao, Youtian and Walsh, Patrick J.}
}
