for many years. 1–8 More recently, their role in different chemical processes has been
increasingly acknowledged. 9–13 As such, the potential of hydrogen or halogen bonding as
the directing force for catalysis has been assessed in many organic transformations. 14–20
Surprisingly, polymerization processes are an important class of catalytic reactions where
the effect of the noncovalent interactions has scarcely been evaluated. Most of the studies …