Ditopic initiators were evaluated for bidirectional organocatalyzed ROMP. Incorporation of monomer was found to be successful for both inward and outward polymer growth, stemming from divinyl ethers with different relative orientation of alkoxy moieties. Macroinitiators were also used to prepare triblock and graft copolymers that were found to be easily cleaved with acid catalyst.
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