Transforming how plastics are made, unmade, and remade through innovative research and
diverse partnerships that together foster environmental stewardship is critically important to …

Conspectus Nearly all polymers are derived from nonrenewable fossil resources, and their
disposal at their end of use presents significant environmental problems. Nonetheless …

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 …

Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) is a powerful synthetic methodology for the chemical
synthesis of technologically important biodegradable aliphatic polyesters from cyclic esters …

Organocatalysis offers a number of opportunities in polymer synthesis and was among the
earliest methods of catalyzing the synthesis of polyesters. In the following Perspective we …

Rare-earth metal complexes as catalysts for ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters -
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Modern synthetic methods have revolutionized polymer chemistry through the development
of new and powerful strategies for the controlled synthesis of complex polymer architectures …

1.1 Background Interest in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) reactions has gained
tremendous momentum in the course of the past two decades.(1) While the polymerization …

Intrinsically recyclable polymers represent a circular economy approach to address plastics
problems. However, the design of such circular polymers is challenged by unyielding trade …

Organometallic chemistry is generally considered the key to homogeneous catalysis, which,
although a century old, is still today a very dynamic discipline. 1 The past decade has seen …