Table 2. A comparison of yields of polymer 18 from ROP at various concentrations.
| Sample | Conc. (M) | % of 18 (1H NMR spectroscopy) |
% Yield of 18 (20 °C) a | % Yield of 18 (–78 °C) a | ||
| 24 h | 48 h | 7 days | ||||
| 18a | 1.31 | 59.8 | 60.8 | 59.5 | 23 | 65 |
| 18b | 0.79 | 41.1 | 41.8 | 42.2 | b | 29 |
| 18c | 0.44 | 16.9 | 25.0 | 24.3 | b | b |
| 18d | 0.22 | 3.17 | 14.3 | 14.3 | b | b |
| 18e | 0.11 | 10.7 | 11.6 | 11.5 | b | b |
aTemperature at which the reaction work-up was performed.
bNo polymer was isolated in this case.