Highly active and stereoselective zirconium and hafnium alkoxide initiators for solvent-free ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide

A J Chmura; Matthew G Davidson; C J Frankis; M D Jones; M D Lunn

doi:10.1039/b718678a

Highly active and stereoselective zirconium and hafnium alkoxide initiators for solvent-free ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide

A J Chmura
, Matthew G Davidson
, C J Frankis
, M D Jones
, M D Lunn

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

Under solvent-free conditions (at 130 degrees C), zirconium and hafnium amine tris(phenolate) alkoxides are extremely active, well-controlled, single-site initiators for the ring-opening polymerization of rac-lactide, yielding highly heterotactic polylactide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1293-1295
Number of pages	3
Journal	Chemical Communications
Volume	2008
Issue number	11
Early online date	15 Feb 2008
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/b718678a
Publication status	Published - 21 Mar 2008

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An addition/corerction to this paper was published in Chemical Communications Issue 48, 2008, p6611, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/B819970C
ID number: ISI:000254352900007

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