Stereoselectivity in metallocene-catalyzed coordination polymerization of renewable methylene butyrolactones: From stereo-random to stereo-perfect polymers
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ArticleKAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionChemical Science Program
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2012-04-23Online Publication Date
2012-04-23Print Publication Date
2012-05-02Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/562177
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Coordination polymerization of renewable α-methylene-γ-(methyl) butyrolactones by chiral C 2-symmetric zirconocene catalysts produces stereo-random, highly stereo-regular, or perfectly stereo-regular polymers, depending on the monomer and catalyst structures. Computational studies yield a fundamental understanding of the stereocontrol mechanism governing these new polymerization reactions mediated by chiral metallocenium catalysts. © 2012 American Chemical Society.Citation
Chen, X., Caporaso, L., Cavallo, L., & Chen, E. Y.-X. (2012). Stereoselectivity in Metallocene-Catalyzed Coordination Polymerization of Renewable Methylene Butyrolactones: From Stereo-random to Stereo-perfect Polymers. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(17), 7278–7281. doi:10.1021/ja301811sSponsors
We thank the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF-1012326 to E.Y.-X.C.) and the National Science Foundation of China (no. 21072120 to X.C.) for financial support. L. Cavallo thanks the HPC team of Enea (www.enea.it) for use of the ENEA-GRID and HPC facilities CRESCO (www.cresco.enea.it) in Portici, Italy. We also thank Wesley Mariott and Garret Miyake for some initial experiments on the MBL polymerization by catalyst 1.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/ja301811s