| Abstract: | A polymer with a 2‐azetidinone moiety in its main chain was efficiently synthesized by [2 + 2] cycloaddition of bisimine with bisketene. The bisketene was easily prepared by dehydrochlorination of the corresponding dicarboxylic acid chloride and was used without purification. The treatment of the obtained polymer with lithium aluminum hydride resulted in a reductive ring‐opening reaction of the 2‐azetidinone moiety in the main chain that gave the corresponding linear polyamine with hydroxymethyl side chains. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 39: 3789–3796, 2001 |
