Heterocycle/Heteroallene Ring‐Opening Copolymerization: Selective Catalysis Delivering Alternating Copolymers

AJ Plajer, CK Williams - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heteroatom‐containing polymers have strong potential as sustainable replacements for
petrochemicals, show controllable monomer–polymer equilibria and properties spanning …

Recent Advances in Sequence‐Controlled Ring‐Opening Copolymerizations of Monomer Mixtures

X Wang, Z Huo, X Xie, N Shanaiah… - Chemistry–An Asian …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transforming renewable resources into functional and degradable polymers is driven by the
ever‐increasing demand to replace unsustainable polyolefins. However, the utility of many …

Multidimensional control of repeating unit/sequence/topology for one-step synthesis of block polymers from monomer mixtures

X Xia, T Gao, F Li, R Suzuki, T Isono… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synchronously and thoroughly adjusting the chemical structure difference between two
blocks of the diblock copolymer is very useful for designing materials but difficult to achieve …

Tuning Molecular Chromophores of Isoreticular Covalent Organic Frameworks for Visible Light‐Induced Hydrogen Generation

W Li, X Ding, B Yu, H Wang, Z Gao… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The functions of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be tailored by covalently
reticulating advanced molecular modules into well‐defined porous ordered materials …

Recommendation for accurate experimental determination of reactivity ratios in chain copolymerization

NA Lynd, RC Ferrier Jr, BS Beckingham - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
A set of copolymerization data at prescribed reactivity ratios was numerically generated and
then fit using common methods of data analysis including the copolymer equation, Fineman …

The versatile, functional polyether, polyepichlorohydrin: History, synthesis, and applications

G Shukla, RC Ferrier Jr - Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Polyepichlorohydrin (PECH) is a functional polyether first synthesized in the 1950's by the
catalytic ring opening polymerization of epichlorohydrin (ECH), its inexpensive epoxide pre …

Sequential Polymerization from Complex Monomer Mixtures: Access to Multiblock Copolymers with Adjustable Sequence, Topology, and Gradient Strength

X Xia, T Gao, F Li, R Suzuki, T Isono, T Satoh - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Switchable polymerization shows considerable potential for simulating the molecular
precision of natural biopolymers, such as nucleic acids or proteins, to synthesize highly …

Heterodinuclear complexes featuring Zn (ii) and M= Al (iii), Ga (iii) or In (iii) for cyclohexene oxide and CO 2 copolymerisation

AC Deacy, CB Durr, CK Williams - Dalton Transactions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The ring opening copolymerisation of CO2 and epoxides is a useful means to valorise waste
emissions and to reduce pollution in polymer manufacturing. Heterodinuclear catalysts …

Copolymerization of cyclic esters, epoxides and anhydrides: evidence of the dual role of the monomers in the reaction mixture

F Isnard, M Carratù, M Lamberti, V Venditto… - Catalysis Science & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A bimetallic salen aluminum complex (1), where salen is N, N-bis (4, 6-di-tert-butyl
salicylaldimine)-1, 3-propylendiamine, was tested as a catalyst for the ring opening …

Expanding the scope of boron-based ate complexes by manipulating their reactivity: the case of cyclic esters and their (co) polymers

J Liu, Y Gnanou, X Feng - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
The value and merit of triethylborane (TEB)-based ate complexes for the synthesis of various
oxygenated polymers have been recently illustrated through successful examples of …