1.1 Background Interest in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) reactions has gained
tremendous momentum in the course of the past two decades.(1) While the polymerization …

Abstract Poly (lactic acid)(PLA) is by far the most commonly produced biodegradable
polyester. Metal-mediated ring opening polymerization of lactide is the most studied route for …

Food packaging is one of the leading sectors for the end use of plastics. Bioplastic is
produced from natural renewable resources such as crops, wood pulp, and herbaceous …

Plastics, used in countless consumer products that our daily lives depend on, have become
indispensable materials essential for modern life and the global economy. At the same time …

Synthetic polypeptides have emerged as versatile tools in both materials science and
biomedical engineering due to their tunable properties and biodegradability. While the …

High performance biodegradable polymers (eg, aliphatic polyesters) that can display
properties that rival polyolefins are seen as future high demand materials for a variety of …

The request of new materials, matching strict requirements to be applied in precision and
patient-specific medicine, is pushing for the synthesis of more and more complex block …

A family of racemic and enantiopure indium complexes 1–11 bearing bulky chiral
diaminoaryloxy ligands, H (NNOR), were synthesized and fully characterized. Investigation …

Zwitterionic catalysis is powerful in simultaneously activating electrophiles and nucleophiles
in organic transformations; however, its potential in polymerizations remains untapped …

Aluminum alkyl complexes have very useful applications as catalysts or reagents in small
molecule transformations and as cocatalysts in olefin polymerization. This short review …