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Back and forth like a metronome is how the carbene moiety swings in a dual-site catalyst which produces a predominantly alternating copolymer of norbornene and cyclooctene from a one-pot reaction of appropriate mixtures of the two monomers (see scheme). The alternating sequence of the polymer was confirmed by NMR spectroscopy and gel-permeation gravimetric analysis. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http: //www. wiley-vch. de/contents/jc₂002/2005/z502606ₛ. pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
Bornand et al. (Thu,) studied this question.