Combining alkali metals and zinc to harness heterometallic cooperativity in cyclic ester ring-opening polymerisation
Weronika Gruszka, Anna Lykkeberg, Gary S. Nichol, Michael P. Shaver, Antoine Buchard, Jennifer A. Garden
Abstract
complex. These versatile catalysts also display outstanding performance in ε-caprolatone and δ-valerolactone ring-opening polymerisation. These studies provide underpinning methodologies for future heterometallic polymerisation catalyst design, both in cyclic ester polymerisation and other ring-opening (co)polymerisation reactions.
Topics & Concepts
ZincAlkali metalCooperativityRing (chemistry)PolymerizationRing-opening polymerizationChemistryPolymer chemistryZinc compoundsCombinatorial chemistryOrganic chemistryPolymerBiochemistrybiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesCarbon dioxide utilization in catalysisOrganometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis