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

Amanda J. Chmura; Matthew G. Davidson; Catherine J. Frankis; Matthew D. Jones; Matthew D. Lunn

doi:10.1039/B718678A

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

Amanda J. Chmura , Matthew G. Davidson , Catherine J. Frankis , Matthew D. Jones and Matthew D. Lunn

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1293-1295

DOI: 10.1039/B718678A
Received 03 Dec 2007, Accepted 23 Jan 2008
First published on the web 15 Feb 2008

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Under solvent-free conditions (at 130 °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.

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