Fluoroacrylate-bound fluorous-phase soluble hydrogenation catalysts

[reaction: see text] Fluoroacrylate polymer-bound hydrogenation catalysts are described. N-Acryloxysuccinimide-containing fluoroacrylate polymers were converted into phosphine ligands and subsequently into analogues of Wilkinson's catalyst by amidation of N-acryloxysuccinimide active ester residues and Rh exchange. The resulting catalysts have excellent activity and can be reused following fluorous biphasic liquid/liquid separation and extraction.

Self-Assembled, Sub-Micrometer Diameter Semipermeable Capsules.

Semipermeable nanoscopic hollow spheres or cages with diameters in the sub-micrometer to the 100 nm range are accessible by the self-assembly of polymers onto sub-micrometer sized particles (Möhwald et al.) or by the formation of shell-cross-linked polymeric micelles (Wooley et al.) followed by chemical degradation of the underlying particle or micelle core (see scheme).