Title: New Paradigms for Organic Catalysts: The First Organocatalytic Living Polymerization
Abstract: A metal-free approach to the living ring-opening polymerization (ROP, shown schematically) of lactide has been developed using strongly basic amines such as 4-(dimethylamino)pyridine as transesterification catalysts. These organic catalysts must be used in combination with a nucleophile such as an alcohol, which is the actual initiating species.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-07-16
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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