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Phosphasalen indium complexes showing high rates and isoselectivities in rac-lactide polymerisations
- Abstract:
- Polylactide (PLA) is the leading bioderived polymer, produced commercially by the metal catalysed ring-opening polymerisation of lactide. Control over tacticity to produce stereoblock PLA, from rac-lactide, improves thermal properties but is an outstanding challenge. Here, phosphasalen indium catalysts combine high rates (30 ± 3 M-1 min-1, THF, 298 K), high control, low loadings (0.2 mol%) and isoselectivity (Pi = 0.92, THF, 258 K). Furthermore, the phosphasalen indium catalysts do not feature any chiral additives.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1002/anie.201701745
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- Grant:
- EP/L017393/1
- EP/H046380/1
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition More from this journal
- Volume:
- 56
- Issue:
- 19
- Pages:
- 5277–5282
- Publication date:
- 2017-04-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-03
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1521-3757
- ISSN:
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1433-7851
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pubs:686118
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pubs:686118
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- Myers et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © 2017 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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