Synthetic petrochemical-based polymers have had a tremendous industrial impact since the
1940s. Despite the numerous advantages of these materials, two major drawbacks remain …

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

This review describes recent development of ring-opening polymerization of lactides and
related cyclic esters using main group metal complexes as catalysts/initiators. The …

Synthetic routes to aluminium ethyl complexes supported by chiral tetradentate
phenoxyamine (salan‐type) ligands [Al (OC6H2 (R‐6‐R‐4) CH2) 2 {CH3N (C6H10) NCH3} …

Chiral diaminophenoxy proligands, H (NNR′ OR), where R= t-Bu, H and R′= Me, H, have
been developed and their respective zinc ethyl complexes,(NNR′ OR) ZnEt, 3a (R= t-Bu …

A series of monomeric zinc silylamido complexes bearing [NNNO]-type tetradentate
aminophenolate ligands, LZnN (SiMe3) 2 [L={(2-R1) ArCH2N [(CH2) 2R2] CH2 (4-R4-6-R3) …

A series of Al complexes containing phenoxyimine ligands of the types R1 (R2) Al [O-2-t Bu-
6-{(C6F5) N CH} C6H3][R1, R2= Me, Me (1a); Et, Et (1b); Me, Cl (1c)] and Me2Al [O-2-t Bu …

A series of aluminium alkyl complexes {PhC (NR′)(NR′′)} AlR2 (4a–n, R′= 2, 6-
iPr2C6H3, 2, 6-Me2C6H3; R′′= aryl groups with various ortho-, para-or meta …

The in situ generation of metal-alkoxide complexes is a common initiation method in cyclic
ester ring-opening polymerization. However, this method is often a “black box”, where the …

The electronic effects of nitrogen donors in zinc catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of
cyclic esters were investigated. Alkyl and benzyloxy zinc complexes supported by tridentate …