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Owing to the many advantages over step-growth polymerizations, chain-growth polymerization has been utilized in a variety of controlled polymer synthesis, including many important industrial processes. Chain-growth polymerization is generally used for alkenes and alkynes to form ‘aliphatic main chains’, such as alkylene and alkenylene units. In contrast, this method has rarely been applied to the construction of ‘aromatic main chains’ such as arylene units because of the poor variety of the corresponding aromatic monomers in polymer synthesis. Considering the increasing importance of arylene-containing polymers in academic and industrial societies, the development of controlled methods for the formation/introduction of arylene groups by chain-growth polymerization remains a challenging subject in polymer chemistry. In this review, the progress of chain-growth polymerization accompanied by formation/introduction of arylene groups into polymer main chains is reviewed.
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I thank Professor Kyoko Nozaki (UTokyo) for her generous support and encouragement and all the co-workers and collaborators for their contributions to the work cited in this review. I also thank the reviewers of the manuscript for their valuable comments and suggestions given during the review process. This work was financially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research (No. 24655096) from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Ogasawara Foundation for the Promotion of Science & Engineering, the TonenGeneral Sekiyu Foundation and the Yazaki Memorial Foundation for Science and Technology.
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Ito, S. Chain-growth polymerization enabling formation/introduction of arylene groups into polymer main chains. Polym J 48, 667–677 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/pj.2016.18
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