This review highlights recent developments in the field of biodegradable polymeric materials
intended to replace non-degradable conventional plastics, focusing on studies from the last …

Conspectus Almost all aspects of daily life involve polymers in some form or the other.
However, polymer production is largely based on finite feedstocks. These limitations …

Polylactide (PLA), the popular bio-based plastics, has attracted more interest as a benign
alternative for oil-based plastics. Lowering the manufacture cost of PLA and improving the …

A salen ligand and its derivatives salan and salalen, bearing the same substituents on the
phenolate rings, have been synthesized and then used for the preparation of the …

Catalysis based on well-defined iron complexes has experienced a very strong growth over
the last decade, driven by the need to develop a chemistry that is increasingly in line with …

A unique example of a bench-stable guanidine-ligated zinc complex has been thoroughly
evaluated for its effectiveness towards the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of lactides (L …

Whereas harnessing noncovalent interactions (NCIs) has largely been applied to late-
transition-metal complexes and to the corresponding catalytic reactions, there are very few …

This review highlights the recent developments in the field of metalloporphyrins as optical
probes for biologically relevant molecules, such as nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide …

A unique example of zinc bromide complexes bearing a macrocyclic [OSSO]-type
thioetherphenolate ligand (Di-[OSSO] ZnBr) has been successfully explored toward ring …

Described herein is an efficient ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) of rac‐lactide and ϵ‐
caprolactone (ϵ‐CL) using novel bimetallic and monometallic aluminum complexes …