minimal amount of residual tin. Ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone was
performed in toluene, with a tin (IV) alkoxide as the initiator. A number of parameters were
varied in order to study the polymerization with respect to the purity of solvent, batch size,
and the residual amount of tin in the polymers. The synthesis of ε-caprolactone in undistilled
toluene with 1-di-n-butyl-1-stanna-2, 5-dioxacyclopentane as the initiator was successfully …