N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

The chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) has witnessed tremendous development
in the past two decades: NHCs have not only become versatile ligands for transition metals …

Organocatalysis offers a number of opportunities in polymer synthesis and was among the
earliest methods of catalyzing the synthesis of polyesters. In the following Perspective we …

Ten years have passed since the conception of what was termed Lewis pair polymerization
(LPP) that employs Lewis acid and base in pairs to not only activate monomers but also …

1.1 Background A prolific coupling of polymer science with organometallic chemistry has
recently yielded phenomenal scientific and commercial successes in the production of …

Epoxide derivatives constitute a broad family of monomers which are able to be polymerized
by anionic or related nucleophilic ring-opening mechanism. The main synthetic strategies …

Außergewöhnlich aktiv sind Al (C 6 F 5) 3‐basierte klassische und frustrierte Lewis‐Paare
mit ausgewählen Phosphanen oder N‐heterocyclischen Carbenen in der Polymerisation …

Organocatalysis has emerged as an invaluable tool for polymer synthesis and has already
demonstrated versatility for replacing organometallic catalysts in many polymerization …

In virtue of the rising demand for metal-free polymeric materials, organocatalytic
polymerization has emerged and blossomed unprecedentedly in the past 15 years into an …