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 …

Borane catalysis for epoxide (co) polymerization

S Naumann - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Since 2016, when simple triethylborane (Et3B) was revealed as a very capable catalyst for
the copolymerization of epoxides and carbon dioxide, research effort regarding this type of …

Sequence control from mixtures: switchable polymerization catalysis and future materials applications

AC Deacy, GL Gregory, GS Sulley… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
There is an ever-increasing demand for higher-performing polymeric materials
counterbalanced by the need for sustainability throughout the life cycle. Copolymers …

Structural Metamorphoses of d-Xylose Oxetane- and Carbonyl Sulfide-Based Polymers In Situ during Ring-Opening Copolymerizations

DK Tran, AN Braaksma, AM Andras… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymers constructed from copolymerizations of carbohydrates with C1 feedstocks are
promising targets that provide transformation of sustainably sourced building blocks into …

Self-switchable polymerization: a smart approach to sequence-controlled degradable copolymers

C Hu, X Pang, X Chen - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the quest for sustainable development, degradable polymers are attractive alternatives to
traditional fossil-based plastics. As monocomponent degradable polymers often suffer from …

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 …

Diblock dialternating terpolymers by one-step/one-pot highly selective organocatalytic multimonomer polymerization

J Xu, X Wang, N Hadjichristidis - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
The synthesis of well-defined block copolymers from a mixture of monomers without
additional actions (“one-pot/one-step”) is an ideal and industrially valuable method. In …

Organoboron-mediated polymerizations

YY Zhang, GW Yang, C Lu, XF Zhu, Y Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The scientific community has witnessed extensive developments and applications of
organoboron compounds as synthetic elements and metal-free catalysts for the construction …

Polyurethanes from Direct Organocatalytic Copolymerization of p‐Tosyl Isocyanate with Epoxides

M Jia, N Hadjichristidis, Y Gnanou… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The direct copolymerization of p‐tosyl isocyanate (TSI) with epoxides, initiated by onium
salts in the presence of trialkylborane, to produce polyurethanes is reported. The rate of …

Zinc Hydride Catalyzed Chemoselective Hydroboration of Isocyanates: Amide Bond Formation and C= O Bond Cleavage

RK Sahoo, N Sarkar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, a remarkable conjugated bis‐guanidinate (CBG) supported zinc hydride,[{LZnH} 2;
L={(ArHN)(ArN)− C= N− C=(NAr)(NHAr); Ar= 2, 6‐Et2‐C6H3}](I) catalyzed partial reduction …