The Lewis Pair Polymerization of Lactones Using Metal Halides and N-Heterocyclic Olefins: Theoretical Insights

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

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

Mechanism of Propylene Oxide Polymerization Promoted by N-Heterocyclic Olefins

(2017) Miasser Al Ghamdi et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

N-Heterocyclic Olefin-Based (Co)polymerization of a Challenging Monomer: Homopolymerization of ω-Pentadecalactone and Its Copolymers with γ-Butyrolactone, δ-Valerolactone, and ε-Caprolactone

(2017) Patrick Walther et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Organic Lewis Pairs Based on Phosphine and Electrophilic Silane for the Direct and Controlled Polymerization of Methyl Methacrylate: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations

(2017) Winnie Nzahou Ottou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

N-Heterocyclic olefins as initiators for the polymerization of (meth)acrylic monomers: a combined experimental and theoretical approach

(2017) Stefan Naumann et al.   Polymer Chemistry

CO2 Sequestration by Triazolylidene-Derived N-Heterocyclic Olefins: A Computational Study

(2017) Ana P. de Lima Batista et al.   ChemistrySelect

A DFT study of the ring-opening polymerization mechanism of l -lactide and ε -caprolactone using aluminium salen-type initiators: Towards an understanding of their reactivities in homo- and copolymerization

(2017) Dhanadech Chandanabodhi et al.   Molecular Catalysis

Application of imidazolinium salts and N-heterocyclic olefins for the synthesis of anionic and neutral tungsten imido alkylidene complexes

(2016) Dominik A. Imbrich et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Role(s) of TMA in polymerization

(2016) C. Ehm et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Theoretical Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of N-Heterocyclic Olefins in Carboxylative Cyclization of Propargyl Alcohol with CO2

(2016) Weiyi Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

End of Frustration: Catalytic Precision Polymerization with Highly Interacting Lewis Pairs

(2016) Maximilian G. M. Knaus et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dual Catalysis Based on N-Heterocyclic Olefins for the Copolymerization of Lactones: High Performance and Tunable Selectivity

(2016) Stefan Naumann et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Living Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactones by N-Heterocyclic Olefin/Al(C6F5)3 Lewis Pairs: Structures of Intermediates, Kinetics, and Mechanism

(2016) Qianyi Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

A comparative computational study of N-heterocyclic olefin and N-heterocyclic carbene mediated carboxylative cyclization of propargyl alcohols with CO2

(2016) Weiyi Li et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Development and Applications of Transesterification Reactions Catalyzed by N-Heterocyclic Olefins

(2016) Marcus Blümel et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

SambVca 2. A Web Tool for Analyzing Catalytic Pockets with Topographic Steric Maps

(2016) Laura Falivene et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Improved synthesis of N -heterocyclic olefins and evaluation of their donor strengths

(2016) Kate Powers et al.   POLYHEDRON

Highly Polarized Alkenes as Organocatalysts for the Polymerization of Lactones and Trimethylene Carbonate

(2016) Stefan Naumann et al.   ACS Macro Letters

N-Heterocyclic Olefins as Organocatalysts for Polymerization: Preparation of Well-Defined Poly(propylene oxide)

(2015) Stefan Naumann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Resurgence of the Highly Ylidic N-Heterocyclic Olefins as a New Class of Organocatalysts

(2015) Reece D. Crocker et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Dual Catalysis for Selective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactones: Evolution toward Simplicity

(2015) Stefan Naumann et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A theoretical investigation of substituent effects on the stability and reactivity of N-heterocyclic olefin carboxylates

(2015) Liang Dong et al.   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Mechanistic Aspects of Initiation and Deactivation in N-Heterocyclic Olefin Mediated Polymerization of Acrylates with Alane as Activator

(2014) Yin-Bao Jia et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Liberation of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) from thermally labile progenitors: protected NHCs as versatile tools in organo- and polymerization catalysis

(2014) Stefan Naumann et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

Dual catalysis: new approaches for the polymerization of lactones and polar olefins

(2013) Estefanía Piedra-Arroni et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Preparation of 2-Alkylidene-Substituted 1,3,4,5-Tetramethylimidazolines and Their Reactivity Towards RhIComplexes and B(C6F5)3

(2013) Sabrina Kronig et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Understanding the Mechanism of Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone Catalyzed by Aluminum Salen Complexes

(2013) Maria O. Miranda et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Ring-Opening Polymerization with Zn(C6F5)2-Based Lewis Pairs: Original and Efficient Approach to Cyclic Polyesters

(2013) Estefanía Piedra-Arroni et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Fast CO2 Sequestration, Activation, and Catalytic Transformation Using N-Heterocyclic Olefins

(2013) Yan-Bo Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Protected N-heterocyclic carbenes as latent pre-catalysts for the polymerization of ε-caprolactone

(2013) Stefan Naumann et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Theoretical study of geometry and nucleophilicity of the exocyclic methylene in five-membered ring cyclic ketene acetals, neutral and protonated, containing pnictogen and chalcogen heteroatoms

(2013) Adam E. Catoire et al.   STRUCTURAL CHEMISTRY

ChemShell-a modular software package for QM/MM simulations

(2013) Sebastian Metz et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science

Lewis pair polymerization by classical and frustrated Lewis pairs: acid, base and monomer scope and polymerization mechanism

(2012) Yuetao Zhang et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Property-optimized Gaussian basis sets for molecular response calculations

(2010) Dmitrij Rappoport et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Push–pull alkenes from cyclic ketene-N,N′-acetals: a wide span of double bond lengths and twist angles

(2010) Guozhong Ye et al.   TETRAHEDRON

SambVca: A Web Application for the Calculation of the Buried Volume of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands

(2009) Albert Poater et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Coordination Chemistry of Ene-1,1-diamines and a Prototype “Carbodicarbene”

(2008) Alois Fürstner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION