Defining the macromolecules of tomorrow through synergistic sustainable polymer research

FM Haque, JSA Ishibashi, CAL Lidston, H Shao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Transforming how plastics are made, unmade, and remade through innovative research and
diverse partnerships that together foster environmental stewardship is critically important to …

Synthesis of unsaturated (Co) polyesters from ring-opening copolymerization by aluminum bipyridine bisphenolate complexes with improved protonic impurities …

XL Chen, B Wang, L Pan, YS Li - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of unsaturated polyesters (UPES) via ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP) of
maleic anhydride (MAH) and epoxides still remains a great challenge, because the reported …

Exploiting Noncovalent Interactions for Room-Temperature Heteroselective rac-Lactide Polymerization Using Aluminum Catalysts

S Gesslbauer, R Savela, Y Chen, AJP White… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Whereas harnessing noncovalent interactions (NCIs) has largely been applied to late-
transition-metal complexes and to the corresponding catalytic reactions, there are very few …

Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters by a versatile aluminum Diphenoxyimine Complex: From polylactide to random copolymers

FM Garcia-Valle, T Cuenca, MEG Mosquera… - European polymer …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Aluminum complex [AlMeL 2](1),(L= N-(2, 6-diisopropylphenyl)-phenoxyimine),
promotes the Ring-Opening Polymerization (ROP) of L-and rac-lactide, and the …

Aluminum complexes bearing bidentate amido–phosphine ligands for ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone: steric effect on coordination chemistry and …

C Wei, B Han, D Zheng, Q Zheng, S Liu, Z Li - Organometallics, 2019 - ACS Publications
The aluminum complexes L AlMe2 (Al1–Al5: LH= 2, 6-(R1) 2-4-R2-C6H2NHCH2C6H4-2-
PPh2; Al1, R1= H, R2= H; Al2, R1= Me, R2= H; Al3, R1= i Pr, R2= H; Al4, R1= Ph2CH, R2= i …

Ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters mediated by zinc complexes coordinated with benzotriazo-based imino-phenoxy ligands

YL Hsieh, W Benchaphanthawee, HH Teng, N Huang… - Polymer, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of zinc complexes coordinated with benzotriazo-based imino-phenoxy ligands (Zn II
(BTPIP)) has been developed for the mediation of ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of ε …

Regioregular Polymers from Biobased (R)-1,3-Butylene Carbonate

CA DeRosa, AM Luke, K Anderson, TM Reineke… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present (R)-1, 3-butylene carbonate (R-BC) as a biorenewable monomer for the
preparation of semicrystalline aliphatic polycarbonates. This conversion is achieved by …

Mechanism of Initiation Stereocontrol in Polymerization of rac-Lactide by Aluminum Complexes Supported by Indolide–Imine Ligands

AM Luke, A Peterson, S Chiniforoush, M Mandal… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The solid state and fluxional behaviors in solution of complexes L2AlOBn and L7AlOBn (Bn=
benzyl) supported by an analog of salen incorporating indolide arms connected via their 2 …

Titanium complexes of salicylbenzoxazole and salicylbenzothiazole ligands for the ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone and substituted ε-caprolactones and …

C Nakornkhet, T Nanok, W Wattanathana… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Two series of titanium complexes, including salicylbenzoxazole titanium complexes (1–4)
and salicylbenzothiazole titanium complexes (5–8), were successfully synthesized and …

Aluminum complexes with Schiff base bridged bis (indolyl) ligands: synthesis, structure, and catalytic activity for polymerization of rac-lactide

Y Wei, L Song, L Jiang, Z Huang, S Wang, Q Yuan… - Dalton …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A series of Schiff base bridged bis (indolyl) ligands were developed for aluminum chemistry.
The reactions of AlEt3 or AlMe3 with the Schiff base bridged bis (indolyl) proligands R1 …