This article reviews the advances made over the past five decades of research in developing
effective chemocatalytic pathways to synthesize polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a prominent …

The importance of stereochemistry to the function of molecules is generally well understood.
However, to date, control over stereochemistry and its potential to influence properties of the …

Although bacterial stereoregular polyhydroxyalkanoates have attracted broad interest as
sustainable materials, it remains a long-standing challenge to chemically synthesize …

Plastics, used in countless consumer products that our daily lives depend on, have become
indispensable materials essential for modern life and the global economy. At the same time …

Polyolefin plastics are widely used due to their low cost and outstanding properties, but their
environmental persistence presents a major societal challenge. Polyhydroxyalkanoates …

Synthesis of aliphatic polyesters has been studied intensively due to their biocompatible and
biodegradable properties and their potential applications in medical and agricultural fields …

Stereoselective polymerization of chiral or prochiral monomers is a powerful method to
produce high-performance stereoregular crystalline polymeric materials. However, for …

This Perspective article summarizes efforts paid in our group to develop efficient metal-
based catalysts for the immortal ring-opening polymerization (iROP) of cyclic esters in the …

Terpolymerizations of (rac)-β-butyrolactone (BBL), cyclohexene oxide (CHO), and carbon
dioxide were realized in one-pot reactions utilizing a Lewis acid BDICF3-Zn-N (SiMe3) 2 (1) …

Abstract Bacterial poly (3-hydroxybutyrate)(P3HB) is a perfectly isotactic, crystalline material
possessing properties suitable for substituting petroleum plastics, but high costs and low …