The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

Triflimide (HNTf2) is a commercially available and highly versatile super Brønsted acid.
Owing to its strong acidity as well as good compatibility with organic solvents, it has been …

Ten years have passed since the conception of what was termed Lewis pair polymerization
(LPP) that employs Lewis acid and base in pairs to not only activate monomers but also …

This Perspective presents the development in living anionic polymerization since 1990. The
main subjects involve the following concerns of living anionic polymerization: functional …

The ring-opening polymerization of δ-valerolactone (δ-VL) and ε-caprolactone (ε-CL) using
3-phenyl-1-propanol (PPA) as the initiator and diphenyl phosphate (DPP) as the catalyst in …

In virtue of the rising demand for metal-free polymeric materials, organocatalytic
polymerization has emerged and blossomed unprecedentedly in the past 15 years into an …

A new method of producing carbon-centered radicals was discovered through the reaction
of an alkyl iodide (RI) with organic salts to reversibly generate the corresponding alkyl …

The efficient catalytic activation of donor–acceptor aminocyclopropanes lacking the
commonly used diester acceptor is reported here in a (3+ 2) dearomative annulation with …

Group transfer polymerization (GTP) has been a minor research topic since the emergence
of controlled/living radical polymerization methods in the mid-1990s, even though it is …

The polymerization of δ-valerolactone (δ-VL) using 3-phenyl-1-propanol (3-Ph-PrOH) as the
initiator and trifluoromethanesulfonimide (HNTf2) as the catalyst in CH2Cl2 at 27° C with the …