An Activated Equivalent of Lactide toward Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 128 (51), 16442-16443
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja067046y
Abstract
The α-lactone equivalent lacOCA exhibits remarkable reactivity compared with lactide in nucleophile-catalyzed ROP. PLAs of controlled molecular weights and narrow polydispersities are typically obtained under mild conditions using DMAP and various protic initiators.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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