Gallium and indium complexes for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic ethers, esters and carbonates

S Dagorne, M Normand, E Kirillov… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the past five years, Ga (III) and most notably In (III) precursors have attracted a growing
interest for application in ROP catalysis of cyclic esters, primarily lactide, and may now be …

Aluminum alkyl complexes: synthesis, structure, and application in ROP of cyclic esters

Y Wei, S Wang, S Zhou - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Aluminum alkyl complexes have very useful applications as catalysts or reagents in small
molecule transformations and as cocatalysts in olefin polymerization. This short review …

Structurally well-defined group 4 metal complexes as initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of lactide monomers

A Sauer, A Kapelski, C Fliedel, S Dagorne, M Kol… - Dalton …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Polylactide (PLA) is an attractive polymeric material due to its origin from annually
renewable resources and its biodegradability. The ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of …

Recent developments on the use of group 13 metal complexes in catalysis

S Dagorne, R Wehmschulte - ChemCatChem, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The present Minireview highlights the most representative and emerging developments
reported since 2012 on the use of well‐defined group 13 metal species in homogeneous …

Functional Short-Bite Ligands: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry, and Applications of N-Functionalized Bis(diaryl/dialkylphosphino)amine-type Ligands

C Fliedel, A Ghisolfi, P Braunstein - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The aim of this review is to highlight how the diversity generated by N-substitution in the well-
known short-bite ligand bis (diphenylphosphino) amine (DPPA) allows a fine-tuning of the …

Recent advances in aluminum compounds for catalysis

C Ni, X Ma, Z Yang, HW Roesky - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights recent advances in the research of organoaluminum complexes in
catalysis. Many fundamental transformations can be carried out by aluminum catalysts, such …

Catalytic metal-based systems for controlled statistical copolymerisation of lactide with a lactone

E Stirling, Y Champouret, M Visseaux - Polymer Chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Polylactide (PLA) is currently considered as a major polymer which could serve as a
potential substitute to the widely used petroleum-based plastics. It is typically produced by …

Redox control of aluminum ring-opening polymerization: a combined experimental and DFT investigation

J Wei, MN Riffel, PL Diaconescu - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The synthesis, characterization, and reactivity of an aluminum alkoxide complex supported
by a ferrocene-based ligand,(thiolfan*) Al (O t Bu)(1 red, thiolfan*= 1, 1′-di (2, 4-di-tert-butyl …

Metal complexes containing nitrogen-heterocycle based aryloxide or arylamido derivatives as discrete catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters

BH Huang, CY Tsai, CT Chen, BT Ko - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of well-defined homogeneous catalysts for the ring-opening
polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters has made enormous progress over the past decade …

Low valent Al (II)–Al (II) catalysts as highly active ε-caprolactone polymerization catalysts: Indication of metal cooperativity through DFT studies

OV Kazarina, C Gourlaouen, L Karmazin… - Dalton …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The present study first describes the reactivity of low valent Al (II) and Ga (II) complexes of
the type (dpp-bian) M–M (dpp-bian)(1, M= Al; 2, Ga; dpp-bian2−= 1, 2-bis-(2, 6-iPr2-C6H3) …