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Master of Chaos and Order: Opposite Microstructures of PCL‐co‐PGA‐co‐PLA Accessible by a Single Catalyst

One catalyst, two reaction set‐ups, three monomers and unlimited macromolecular microstructural designs: The iron guanidine complex [FeCl(2)(TMG5NMe(2)asme)] (1) polymerizes lactide faster than the industrially used Sn(Oct)(2) and shows high activity towards glycolide and ϵ‐caprolactone. Its disting...

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Autores principales: Rittinghaus, Ruth D., Zenner, Johannes, Pich, Andrij, Kol, Moshe, Herres‐Pawlis, Sonja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9305917/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34984790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202112853
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Sumario:One catalyst, two reaction set‐ups, three monomers and unlimited macromolecular microstructural designs: The iron guanidine complex [FeCl(2)(TMG5NMe(2)asme)] (1) polymerizes lactide faster than the industrially used Sn(Oct)(2) and shows high activity towards glycolide and ϵ‐caprolactone. Its distinguished features enable the synthesis of both block and random‐like copolymers in the melt by a simple change of the polymerization set‐up. Sequential addition of monomers yields highly ordered block copolymers including the symmetrical PLA‐b‐PGA‐b‐PCL‐b‐PGA‐b‐PLA pentablock copolymers, while polymerizations of monomer mixtures feature enhanced transesterifications and pave the way to di‐ and terpolymers with highly dispersed repeating unit distributions. A robust catalyst active under industrially applicable conditions and producing copolymers with desired microstructures is a major step towards biocompatible polymers with tailor‐made properties as alternatives for traditional plastics on the way towards a sustainable, circular material flow.