Issue 68, 2016
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Chemical Communications

Aluminium salalens vs. salans: “Initiator Design” for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide†

Paul McKeown,ab   Matthew G. Davidson,b   Gabriele Kociok-Köhnb  and  Matthew D. Jones*b  

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a Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK

b Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
E-mail: mj205@bath.ac.uk
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Abstract

We report the rationalised design of aluminium initiators and their application for ROP of rac-lactide (rac-LA). A very minor change to the ligand backbone (imine reduction) to give secondary amines was found to have a dramatic effect on activity and selectivity with isotactic PLA being realised.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC05795K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
14 Jul 2016
Accepted
27 Jul 2016
First published
27 Jul 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 10431-10434

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Aluminium salalens vs. salans: “Initiator Design” for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide

P. McKeown, M. G. Davidson, G. Kociok-Köhn and M. D. Jones, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 10431 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC05795K

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