Disclosed is a method of preparing terminally functionalized telechelic
polymers using a cationic living polymer product or a terminal tert-chloride chain
end of a carbocationic quasiliving polymer product, which comprises quenching the
polymer product with an N-substituted pyrrole to thereby functionalize the N-substituted
pyrrole at the terminal reactive polymer chain end(s). Also disclosed are the terminal
functionalized polyisobuyl N-substituted pyrrole compounds where the polyisobutyl
group is substituted at the 2 and 3 position of the N-substituted pyrrole.