Alkyl borane-mediated metal-free ring-opening (co) polymerizations of oxygenated monomers

C Zhang, X Geng, X Zhang, Y Gnanou… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sensibility to environmental concerns and the actual demand for polymeric materials free of
any metal contaminants in most applications have directed research towards significant …

Copolymerization involving sulfur-containing monomers

TJ Yue, WM Ren, XB Lu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incorporating sulfur (S) atoms into polymer main chains endows these materials with many
attractive features, including a high refractive index, mechanical properties, electrochemical …

Multifunctional catalysts for ring-opening copolymerizations

CAL Lidston, SM Severson, BA Abel, GW Coates - ACS catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
The ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of epoxides with CO2 or cyclic anhydrides is a
versatile route toward synthesizing a wide range of polycarbonate and polyester …

Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS2/oxetane copolymers

C Fornacon-Wood, BR Manjunatha, MR Stühler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CS2 promises easy access to degradable sulfur-rich polymers and insights into how main-
group derivatisation affects polymer formation and properties, though its ring-opening …

Recent trends in catalytic polymerizations

DJ Walsh, MG Hyatt, SA Miller, D Guironnet - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

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 …

Chemically Recyclable Polyethylene‐like Sulfur‐Containing Plastics from Sustainable Feedstocks

Y Xia, X Yue, Y Sun, C Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The green revolution in plastics should be accelerated due to growing sustainability
concerns. Here, we develop a series of chemically recyclable polymers from the first …

Oscillatory adaptive catalysis: Intramolecular chain shuttling regulated by stereo-autocorrection in stereoselective polymerization of lactide

W Zhao, F Cui, J He, Y Zhang, EYX Chen - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
In metal-mediated stereoselective polymerization of cyclic esters, racemic catalysts use their
enantiomers for enantioselective roles and achieve diverse polymer stereomicrostructures …

Modular alcohol click chemistry enables facile synthesis of recyclable polymers with tunable structure

Y Xia, Y Sun, Z Liu, C Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The facile synthesis of chemically recyclable polymers derived from sustainable feedstocks
presents enormous challenges. Here, we develop a novel, modular, and efficient click …

Synergetic organocatalysis for eliminating epimerization in ring-opening polymerizations enables synthesis of stereoregular isotactic polyester

M Li, Y Tao, J Tang, Y Wang, X Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Ring-opening polymerization of O-carboxyanhydrides (OCAs) can furnish polyesters with a
diversity of functional groups that are traditionally hard to harvest by polymerization of …