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SUBMITTER: Saini PK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434931 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saini Prabhjot K PK Fiorani Giulia G Mathers Robert T RT Williams Charlotte K CK
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20170315 18
Developing selective polymerizations from complex monomer mixtures is an important challenge. Here, dinuclear catalysts allow selective polymerization from mixtures of sterically hindered tricyclic anhydrides, carbon dioxide and epoxides to yield well-controlled copoly(ester-carbonates). Surprisingly, two very similar homogeneous catalysts differing only in the central metal, zinc versus magnesium, show very high but diametrically opposite monomer selectivity. The selectivity is attributed to di ...[more]