Heterocycle/Heteroallene Ring‐Opening Copolymerization: Selective Catalysis Delivering Alternating Copolymers

AJ Plajer, CK Williams - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Heteroatom‐containing polymers have strong potential as sustainable replacements for
petrochemicals, show controllable monomer–polymer equilibria and properties spanning …

Lanthanide-containing clusters for catalytic water splitting and CO2 conversion

ZH Pan, ZZ Weng, XJ Kong, LS Long… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water splitting and CO 2 conversion involving the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER),
oxygen evolution reaction (OER), overall water splitting, CO 2 reduction, and CO 2 chemical …

Understanding catalytic synergy in dinuclear polymerization catalysts for sustainable polymers

F Fiorentini, WT Diment, AC Deacy, RWF Kerr… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the chemistry underpinning intermetallic synergy and the discovery of
generally applicable structure-performances relationships are major challenges in catalysis …

Understanding metal synergy in heterodinuclear catalysts for the copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides

AC Deacy, AFR Kilpatrick, A Regoutz, CK Williams - Nature chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide and epoxide copolymerization is an industrially relevant means to valorize
waste and improve sustainability in polymer manufacturing. Given the value of the polymer …

Co(III)/Alkali-Metal(I) Heterodinuclear Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Copolymerization of CO2 and Propylene Oxide

AC Deacy, E Moreby, A Phanopoulos… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ring-opening copolymerization of carbon dioxide and propene oxide is a useful means
to valorize waste into commercially attractive poly (propylene carbonate)(PPC) polyols. The …

Switchable Catalysis Improves the Properties of CO2-Derived Polymers: Poly(cyclohexene carbonate-b-ε-decalactone-b-cyclohexene carbonate) Adhesives …

GS Sulley, GL Gregory, TTD Chen… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Carbon dioxide/epoxide copolymerization is an efficient way to add value to waste CO2 and
to reduce pollution in polymer manufacturing. Using this process to make low molar mass …

Precise cooperative sulfur placement leads to semi-crystallinity and selective depolymerisability in CS2/oxetane copolymers

C Fornacon-Wood, BR Manjunatha, MR Stühler… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CS2 promises easy access to degradable sulfur-rich polymers and insights into how main-
group derivatisation affects polymer formation and properties, though its ring-opening …

Redox-active ligands: Recent advances towards their incorporation into coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks

B Ding, MB Solomon, CF Leong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past three decades, the field of coordination polymers (CPs) and metal–organic
frameworks (MOFs) has developed rapidly due to the potential applications of these …

Evolution of Copolymers of Epoxides and CO2: Catalysts, Monomers, Architectures, and Applications

GW Yang, R **e, YY Zhang, CK Xu, GP Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
The copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides presents a transformative approach to
converting greenhouse gases into aliphatic polycarbonates (CO2-PCs), thereby reducing …

Scalable Bifunctional Organoboron Catalysts for Copolymerization of CO2 and Epoxides with Unprecedented Efficiency

GW Yang, YY Zhang, R **e, GP Wu - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The metallic catalyst-dominated alternating copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides has
flourished for 50 years; however, the involved multistep preparation of the catalysts and the …