Recent Advances and Challenges in Barbier Polymerization

• Published in: ChemPlusChem (Weinheim, Germany) Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. e202200388 - n/a
• Main Authors: Chen, Yu‐Jiao, Wu, Liang‐Tao, Xiao, Hang, Sun, Xiao‐Li, Wan, Wen‐Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Barbier Polymerization; Barbier Reaction; covalent-anionic-radical polymerization; living polymerization; Luminescence; Polymerization; polymerization-induced emission; single-atom polymerization; polymerization-induced emission; Barbier Polymerization; Barbier Reaction; covalent-anionic-radical polymerization; living polymerization; single-atom polymerization
• ISSN: 2192-6506; 2192-6506
• DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202200388

The Barbier reaction, a classical name reaction for carbon‐carbon bond formation, has played important roles in organic chemistry for over 120 years. The introduction of the Barbier reaction into polymer chemistry for the development of a novel Barbier polymerization, expands the methodology, monomer, chemical structure and property libraries of polymerization, aggregation‐induced emission (AIE) and non‐traditional intrinsic luminescence (NTIL). This mini review focuses on Barbier polymerization, including the brief introduction of the history and importance of polymerization methods design and the achievements of Barbier polymerization from molecular design strategies, functionalities and properties. An outlook of Barbier polymerization is also proposed. This mini review on Barbier polymerization therefore may cause inspirations to scientists in different fields. Recent advances in Barbier polymerization, are discussed in this Review article. Through Barbier polymerization, the monomer, methodology, chemical structure and property libraries of polymerization, aggregation‐induced emission and non‐traditional intrinsic luminescence have been successfully expanded.