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Chemoselective polymerization control: from mixed-monomer feedstock to copolymers.

ABSTRACT: A novel chemoselective polymerization control yields predictable (co)polymer compositions from a mixture of monomers. Using a dizinc catalyst and a mixture of caprolactone, cyclohexene oxide, and carbon dioxide enables the selective preparation of either polyesters or polycarbonates or copoly(ester-carbonates). The selectivity depends on the nature of the zinc-oxygen functionality at the growing polymer chain end, and can be controlled by the addition of exogeneous switch reagents.

SUBMITTER: Romain DC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4232277 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Chemoselective polymerization control: from mixed-monomer feedstock to copolymers.

Romain Dr Charles DC Williams Charlotte K CK

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20140122 6

A novel chemoselective polymerization control yields predictable (co)polymer compositions from a mixture of monomers. Using a dizinc catalyst and a mixture of caprolactone, cyclohexene oxide, and carbon dioxide enables the selective preparation of either polyesters or polycarbonates or copoly(ester-carbonates). The selectivity depends on the nature of the zinc-oxygen functionality at the growing polymer chain end, and can be controlled by the addition of exogeneous switch reagents. ...[more]

PMID: 24453135

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