Synthesis of Diblock and Triblock Polymers from Cyclooctadiene and Norbornene Via ROMP in Miniemulsion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The synthesis of diblock and triblock linear polyolefins via ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) in an aqueous nanoparticle dispersion is presented. The different block polyolefins are synthesized from the cyclic olefins 1,5-cyclooctadiene and norbornene (NB), using a water-soluble TEGylated ruthenium alkylidene catalyst, yielding the structures PCOD-b-PNB, PNB-b-PCOD, and PCOD-b-PNB-b-PCOD. High monomer conversion (>90%), monitored by NMR, is achieved in relatively short times (≈1 h) for the polymerization of each block. The livingness of the system, essential to obtain block copolymers, is confirmed by gel permeation chromatography. Latex particles' size during the multiple steps range between 90 and 150 nm. The results demonstrate that it is possible to obtain nanoparticle latexes from ROMP-based monomers with block copolymer architectures, creating the opportunity to copolymerize olefins bearing different functional groups for the synthesis of new materials.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".