Issue 16, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Group 4 metal initiators for the controlled stereoselective polymerization of lactide monomers†

Jean-Charles Buffeta  and  Jun Okuda*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institut für Anorganische Chemie, RWTH Aachen, Landoltweg 1, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
E-mail: jun.okuda@ac.rwth-aachen.de
Fax: +49 241 8092644

Abstract

Group 4 metal initiators with a tetradentate bis(phenolato) ligand polymerized meso-lactide efficiently under ring-opening to give syndiotactic polylactide. L-Lactide was converted faster than rac-lactide and meso-lactide.

Graphical abstract: Group 4 metal initiators for the controlled stereoselective polymerization of lactide monomers

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC10149H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
07 Jan 2011
Accepted
22 Feb 2011
First published
15 Mar 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 4796-4798

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Group 4 metal initiators for the controlled stereoselective polymerization of lactide monomers

J. Buffet and J. Okuda, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 4796 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC10149H

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