PMID- 22777965 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130102 LR - 20120813 IS - 1521-3927 (Electronic) IS - 1022-1336 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 16 DP - 2012 Aug 28 TI - Rare Earth metal-mediated group transfer polymerization of vinylphosphonates. PG - 1327-45 LID - 10.1002/marc.201200278 [doi] AB - Recent studies have shown that poly(vinylphosphonate)s are readily accessible by rare earth metal-mediated group transfer polymerization (GTP). This article highlights the progress in this new field and advantages of GTP in comparison to classical anionic and radical polymerization approaches. Late lanthanide metallocenes proved to be efficient initiators and highly active catalysts for vinylphosphonate polymerization yielding polymers of precise molecular weight and low polydispersity. Using this method, our group has developed a surface-initiated GTP to prepare poly(vinylphosphonate) brushes. In combination with different ester cleavage strategies, rare earth metal-mediated GTP is an efficient way to create well-defined high-molecular-weight poly(vinylphosphonic acid). CI - Copyright (c) 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. FAU - Salzinger, Stephan AU - Salzinger S AD - WACKER-Lehrstuhl fur Makromolekulare Chemie, Technische Universitat Munchen, Garching, Germany. FAU - Rieger, Bernhard AU - Rieger B LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20120710 PL - Germany TA - Macromol Rapid Commun JT - Macromolecular rapid communications JID - 9888239 RN - 0 (Metals, Rare Earth) RN - 0 (Organophosphonates) RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Vinyl Compounds) RN - 1746-03-8 (vinylphosphonic acid) SB - IM MH - Kinetics MH - Metals, Rare Earth/*chemistry MH - Molecular Weight MH - Organophosphonates/chemistry MH - Polymerization MH - Polymers/chemical synthesis/*chemistry MH - Vinyl Compounds/chemistry EDAT- 2012/07/11 06:00 MHDA- 2013/01/03 06:00 CRDT- 2012/07/11 06:00 PHST- 2012/04/20 00:00 [received] PHST- 2012/07/11 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/07/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/01/03 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1002/marc.201200278 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Macromol Rapid Commun. 2012 Aug 28;33(16):1327-45. doi: 10.1002/marc.201200278. Epub 2012 Jul 10.