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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 58, Issue 36, Pages 12585-12589Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903224
Keywords
homogeneous catalysis; iron complexes; polymers; lactide; synthetic methods
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-10-PDOC-010-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Enantiopure poly(lactic acid) (PLA) can form stereocomplexes when enantiomeric PLA chains are mixed in equivalent amounts. Such materials provide interesting features that might be suitable for numerous applications. Despite several advantages, the main drawback of PLA is its narrow window of processing, thus limiting its use for industrial applications. Reported herein are achiral iron complexes, that are highly active, productive, and stereoselective under mild reaction conditions for the ring-opening polymerization of lactide. The corresponding catalytic systems enable the production of stereoblock polymers with high molecular weights, allowing the formation of thermally stable and industrially relevant stereocomplexes.
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