High ring strains hinder the reversible ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cyclooctenes, requiring fused bicyclic monomers. Here, the authors functionalise cyclooctene with tert-butyl and hydroxy substituents to introduce conformational constraints and enable reversible ROMP of non-bicyclic cyclooctenes.
- Trimbak Baliram Mete
- Kyungmin Choi
- Soon Hyeok Hong
