Sensibility to environmental concerns and the actual demand for polymeric materials free of
any metal contaminants in most applications have directed research towards significant …

The scope of this Perspective is to highlight innovative contributions in the synthesis of well-
defined complex macromolecular architectures and to emphasize the importance of these …

The recent developments in organoborane initiated C1 polymerization (chain grows by one
atom at a time) of ylides open unique horizons towards well-defined/perfectly linear …

Novel well-defined polyethylene-based random, block, and bilayered molecular cobrushes
were synthesized through the macromonomer strategy. Two steps were involved in this …

A novel strategy using polyhomologation and ring opening metathesis polymerization
(ROMP) has been developed for the synthesis of well-defined polyethylene (PE) molecular …

Novel well-defined bilayered molecular cobrushes with internal polyethylene blocks, P
(PEcore-b-PScorona)(PE: polyethylene; PS: polystyrene), and ω-hydroxyl-functionalized …

A series of hydroxyl-terminated polyisobutylene-b-polyethylene (PIB-b-PE-OH) copolymers
were synthesized by combining living cationic polymerization and polyhomologation. Allyl …

Two novel allylic arsonium ylide monomers with a phenyl (steric and electronic effect) group
at different positions were synthesized and used in boron-catalyzed polymerization to …

A series of alkyl‐subsituted dienyltriphenylarsonium ylides were synthesized and used as
monomers in borane‐initiated polymerization to obtain practically pure C5‐polymers (main …

A novel strategy, based on the in situ generated boron-thexyl-silaboracyclic initiating sites
for the polyhomologation of dimethylsulfoxonium methylide, has been developed for the …