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2,5-Dialkynylthiophenes (RCC)2C4H2S (R = Ph, Me3Si or But) treated successively with HBCl2 and Et3SiH in CH2Cl2 undergo hydroboration polymerization to give intensely-coloured polymers of general structure –[CHCR–BCl–CRCH–C4H2S]n– for which the 11B NMR resonances occur ca. 50 ppm upfield of those for analogous monomers.
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Corriu et al. (1998) studied this question.
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