Catalytic Synergy Using Al(III) and Group 1 Metals to Accelerate Epoxide and Anhydride Ring-Opening Copolymerizations

Alkali Metal Carboxylates: Simple and Versatile Initiators for Ring-Opening Alternating Copolymerization of Cyclic Anhydrides/Epoxides

(2021) Chong-Min Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Smart Access to Sequentially and Architecturally Controlled Block Polymers via a Simple Catalytic Polymerization System

(2021) Xiaochao Xia et al.   ACS Catalysis

Roadmap to Biodegradable Plastics—Current State and Research Needs

(2021) Koushik Ghosh et al.   ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Record Productivity and Unprecedented Molecular Weight for Ring‐Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides Enabled by Organoboron Catalysts

(2021) Rui Xie et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Trinuclear salphen–chromium( III )chloride complexes as catalysts for the alternating copolymerization of epoxides and cyclic anhydrides

(2021) Lei Cui et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE

Switchable Catalysis Improves the Properties of CO2-Derived Polymers: Poly(cyclohexene carbonate-b-ε-decalactone-b-cyclohexene carbonate) Adhesives, Elastomers, and Toughened Plastics

(2020) Gregory S. Sulley et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Readily Degradable Aromatic Polyesters from Salicylic Acid

(2020) Hee Joong Kim et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Understanding metal synergy in heterodinuclear catalysts for the copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides

(2020) Arron C. Deacy et al.   Nature Chemistry

Enantioselective terpolymerization of racemic andmeso-epoxides with anhydrides for preparation of chiral polyesters

(2020) Jie Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bio‐based and Degradable Block Polyester Pressure‐Sensitive Adhesives

(2020) Thomas T. D. Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: Toward Catalytic Chemical Recycling of Waste (and Future) Plastics

(2020) Joshua C. Worch et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Synthesis of Tris-Phosphazene Bases with Triazine as Core and Their Applications for Efficient Ring-Opening Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxide and Anhydride: Notable Effect of Basicity and Molecular Size

(2020) Lebin Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Enantioselective, Stereoconvergent Resolution Copolymerization of Racemic cis‐Internal Epoxides and Anhydrides

(2020) Xiao-Bing Lu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Development of Highly Enantioselective Catalysts for Asym-metric Copolymerization of Meso-epoxides and Cyclic Anhy-drides: Subtle Modification Resulting in Superior Enantioselectivity

(2019) Jie Li et al.   ACS Catalysis

Enantioselective Resolution Copolymerization of Racemic Epoxides and Anhydrides: Efficient Approach for Stereoregular Polyesters and Chiral Epoxides

(2019) Jie Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Alternating Copolymerization of trans-Internal Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides Mediated by Dinuclear Chromium Catalyst Systems

(2019) Fu-Peng Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Easy access to oxygenated block polymers via switchable catalysis

(2019) Tim Stößer et al.   Nature Communications

Progress in Metal- Free Cooperative Catalysis for the Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Cyclic Anhydrides and Epoxides

(2019) Sreenath Pappuru et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Comprehensive Understanding of Polyester Stereocomplexation

(2019) Zhao-Qian Wan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanism-Inspired Design of Bifunctional Catalysts for the Alternating Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides

(2019) Brooks A. Abel et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reversible Transformation between Amorphous and Crystalline States of Unsaturated Polyesters by Cis -Trans Isomerization

(2019) Zhao-Qian Wan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ring-opening polymerizations and copolymerizations of epoxides using aluminum- and boron-centered catalysts

(2019) Kori A. Andrea et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Metal‐Free Ring‐Opening Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides Mediated by a Ternary Phosphazene Base and Carboxylic Acids

(2019) Xinhui Kou et al.   MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

Selective Polymerization Catalysis from Monomer Mixtures: Using a Commercial Cr-Salen Catalyst To Access ABA Block Polyesters

(2018) Tim Stößer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lewis pairs for ring-opening alternating copolymerization of cyclic anhydrides and epoxides

(2018) He-Yuan Ji et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Making Various Degradable Polymers from Epoxides Using a Versatile Dinuclear Chromium Catalyst

(2018) Ye Liu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Well-Defined and Structurally Diverse Aromatic Alternating Polyesters Synthesized by Simple Phosphazene Catalysis

(2018) Heng Li et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Highly Active Organic Lewis Pairs for the Copolymerization of Epoxides with Cyclic Anhydrides: Metal-Free Access to Well-Defined Aliphatic Polyesters

(2018) Lan-Fang Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Pentablock Copolymer from Tetracomponent Monomer Mixture Using a Switchable Dizinc Catalyst

(2018) Thomas T. D. Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Alternating copolymerization of epoxides with carbon dioxide or cyclic anhydrides using bimetallic nickel and cobalt catalysts: Preparation of hydrophilic nanofibers from functionalized polyesters

(2018) Chi-Hang Chang et al.   POLYMER

Fully alternating and regioselective ring-opening copolymerization of phthalic anhydride with epoxides using highly active metal-free Lewis pairs as a catalyst

(2018) Anjaneyulu Kummari et al.   Polymer Chemistry

A synthetic polymer system with repeatable chemical recyclability

(2018) Jian-Bo Zhu et al.   SCIENCE

Reversible-deactivation anionic alternating ring-opening copolymerization of epoxides and cyclic anhydrides: access to orthogonally functionalizable multiblock aliphatic polyesters

(2018) Maria J. Sanford et al.   Chemical Science

Metal-free, regioselective and stereoregular alternating copolymerization of monosubstituted epoxides and tricyclic anhydrides

(2018) He-Yuan Ji et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Dinuclear iron(iii) complexes bearing phenylene-bridged bis(amino triphenolate) ligands as catalysts for the copolymerization of cyclohexene oxide with carbon dioxide or phthalic anhydride

(2018) Zhan Shi et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Switch Catalysis To Deliver Multi-Block Polyesters from Mixtures of Propene Oxide, Lactide, and Phthalic Anhydride

(2018) Tim Stößer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Copolymerization of epoxides with cyclic anhydrides catalyzed by dinuclear cobalt complexes

(2018) Yo Hiranoi et al.   Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

Alternating copolymerization of epoxides with anhydrides initiated by organic bases

(2017) Zdeněk Hošťálek et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

Chemically recyclable polymers: a circular economy approach to sustainability

(2017) Miao Hong et al.   GREEN CHEMISTRY

Mechanistic Insights into the Alternating Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides Using a (Salph)AlCl and Iminium Salt Catalytic System

(2017) Megan E. Fieser et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Semiaromatic Polyesters Derived from Renewable Terpene Oxides with High Glass Transitions

(2017) Leticia Peña Carrodeguas et al.   MACROMOLECULES

‘Switch’ catalysis: from monomer mixtures to sequence-controlled block copolymers

(2017) T. Stößer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Access to Biorenewable Polycarbonates with Unusual Glass-Transition Temperature (Tg) Modulation

(2017) Nicole Kindermann et al.   ACS Catalysis

Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides with Discrete Metal Complexes: Structure–Property Relationships

(2016) Julie M. Longo et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Asymmetric Alternating Copolymerization of Meso-epoxides and Cyclic Anhydrides: Efficient Access to Enantiopure Polyesters

(2016) Jie Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Development of Highly Active and Regioselective Catalysts for the Copolymerization of Epoxides with Cyclic Anhydrides: An Unanticipated Effect of Electronic Variation

(2016) Angela M. DiCiccio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride, and Carbon Dioxide

(2016) Charles Romain et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Alternating Copolymerization of Propylene Oxide and Cyclohexene Oxide with Tricyclic Anhydrides: Access to Partially Renewable Aliphatic Polyesters with High Glass Transition Temperatures

(2016) Maria J. Sanford et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Aliphatic Polyester Block Polymer Design

(2016) Deborah K. Schneiderman et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Sustainable polymers from renewable resources

(2016) Yunqing Zhu et al.   NATURE

Bimetallic bis(benzotriazole iminophenolate) cobalt, nickel and zinc complexes as versatile catalysts for coupling of carbon dioxide with epoxides and copolymerization of phthalic anhydride with cyclohexene oxide

(2016) Chun-Yue Yu et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Alternating Copolymerization of Propylene Oxide with Biorenewable Terpene-Based Cyclic Anhydrides: A Sustainable Route to Aliphatic Polyesters with High Glass Transition Temperatures

(2015) Nathan J. Van Zee et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP): synthesis and properties of polyesters and polycarbonates

(2015) Shyeni Paul et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Dinuclear Zinc Salen Catalysts for the Ring Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide or Anhydrides

(2015) Arnaud Thevenon et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: A Heterodinuclear Polymerization Catalyst

(2015) Jennifer A. Garden et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Selective Polymerization Catalysis: Controlling the Metal Chain End Group to Prepare Block Copolyesters

(2015) Yunqing Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Aliphatic Polyester Block Polymers: Renewable, Degradable, and Sustainable

(2014) Marc A. Hillmyer et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Chemoselective Polymerization Control: From Mixed-Monomer Feedstock to Copolymers

(2014) Charles Romain et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Poly(propylene succinate): A New Polymer Stereocomplex

(2014) Julie M. Longo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Di-magnesium and zinc catalysts for the copolymerization of phthalic anhydride and cyclohexene oxide

(2014) Prabhjot K. Saini et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Dual Catalyst System for Asymmetric Alternating Copolymerization of Carbon Dioxide and Cyclohexene Oxide with Chiral Aluminum Complexes: Lewis Base as Catalyst Activator and Lewis Acid as Monomer Activator

(2012) Kiyoshi Nishioka et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Alternating Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclohexene Oxide and Anhydrides: Effect of Catalyst, Cocatalyst, and Anhydride Structure

(2012) Elham Hosseini Nejad et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Binuclear chromium–salan complex catalyzed alternating copolymerization of epoxides and cyclic anhydrides

(2012) Jie Liu et al.   Polymer Chemistry