Zinc-Catalyzed Highly Isoselective Ring Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide

S Abbina, G Du - ACS Macro letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
A family of chiral zinc amido-oxazolinate complexes are shown to be highly active and
isoselective initiators for the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of rac-lactide, yielding …

Reaching High Stereoselectivity and Activity in Organocatalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of Racemic Lactide by the Combined Use of a Chiral (Thio) Urea and a …

MS Zaky, AL Wirotius, O Coulembier… - ACS Macro …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stereochemical control during polymerization is a key strategy of polymer chemistry to
achieve semicrystalline engineered plastics. The stereoselective ring-opening …

Mechanistic aspects of the polymerization of lactide using a highly efficient aluminum (III) catalytic system

C Robert, TE Schmid, V Richard… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report here a unique example of an in situ generated aluminum initiator stabilized by a C
2-symmetric salen ligand which shows a hitherto unknown high activity for the ROP of rac …

Highly robust yttrium bis (phenolate) ether catalysts for excellent isoselective ring-opening polymerization of racemic lactide

TQ Xu, GW Yang, C Liu, XB Lu - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The highly isoselective ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of racemic lactide is regarded as
a valuable strategy for the synthesis of stereocomplex polylactide. In the present …

Highly Iso-Selective and Active Catalysts of Sodium and Potassium Monophenoxides Capped by a Crown Ether for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide

J Zhang, J Xiong, Y Sun, N Tang, J Wu - Macromolecules, 2014 - ACS Publications
Sodium and potassium complexes supported by a bulky monophenoxy with one xanthenyl
group at the ortho-position and 18-crown-6 or 15-crown-5 as an auxiliary ligand were …

Aluminium salalens vs. salans:“Initiator Design” for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide

P McKeown, MG Davidson, G Kociok-Köhn… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the rationalised design of aluminium initiators and their application for ROP of rac-
lactide (rac-LA). A very minor change to the ligand backbone (imine reduction) to give …

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 …

Aluminum methyl, alkoxide and α-alkoxy ester complexes supported by 6, 6′-dimethylbiphenyl-bridged salen ligands: synthesis, characterization and catalysis for rac …

C Kan, J Ge, H Ma - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis and characterization of aluminum alkyl and alkoxide complexes bearing
racemic 6, 6′-dimethylbiphenyl-bridged salen-type ligands, and their catalysis in the ring …

Highly Active and Iso‐Selective Catalysts for the Ring‐Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters using Group 2 Metal Initiators

J Bhattacharjee, A Harinath, HP Nayek… - … A European Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A series of alkali and alkaline earth (Ae) metal complexes bearing 1, 2‐phenylene (bis‐
diphenylphosphinothioic/selenoic amine)[{Ph2P (E) NH} 2C6H4](E= S (1‐H2); Se (2‐H2) …

Bimetallic aluminum complexes with cyclic β-ketiminato ligands: the cooperative effect improves their capability in polymerization of lactide and ε-caprolactone

HC Huang, B Wang, YP Zhang, YS Li - Polymer Chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of new binuclear aluminum complexes containing β-ketiminato ligands R
[NCHC4H4 (C6H4) OAl (CH3) 2] 2 (4a, R= CH2CH2; 4b, R= C6H10; 4c, R= CH2 (CH3) …