Yuan-Yuan Zhu

TL;DR: A family of air-stable (phenylbuta-1,3-diynyl)palladium(II) complexes were designed and prepared in a facile synthetic procedure and revealed to efficiently initiate the polymerization of phenyl isocyanides in a living/controlled chain growth manner, which led to the formation of polyisocyanides with controlled molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions.

TL;DR: A one-dimensional cobalt(II) coordination polymer, [Co(btm)2(SCN)2·H2O]n [btm = bis(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)methane], was synthesized and magnetically characterized.

TL;DR: In this article, an amphiphilic rod-rod diblock copolymers composed of hydrophilic π-conjugated poly(3-triethylene glycol thiophene) (P3(TEG)T) and hydrophobic rigid-rod-like poly(phenyl isocyanide) (PPI) was synthesized in one pot via mechanistically distinct, sequential block copolymerization with Ni(dppp)Cl2 as a single catalyst.

TL;DR: In this article, two allene derivatives, l-and d-N-(1-(octylamino)-1-oxopropan-2-yl)-4-(propa-1,2-dien-1-yloxy)benzamide (l-1 and d-1), bearing chiral amide pendants were designed and synthesized.

TL;DR: In this paper, a family of air-stable phenylethynyl palladium complexes was found to initiate the polymerization of phenyl isocyanide in a living/controlled chain growth manner.