Catalysis as an enabling science for sustainable polymers

X Zhang, M Fevre, GO Jones, RM Waymouth - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The replacement of current petroleum-based plastics with sustainable alternatives is a
crucial but formidable challenge for the modern society. Catalysis presents an enabling tool …

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Materials Chemistry

CA Smith, MR Narouz, PA Lummis, I Singh… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have become one of the most widely studied class of
ligands in molecular chemistry and have found applications in fields as varied as catalysis …

Advanced materials by atom transfer radical polymerization

K Matyjaszewski - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) has been successfully employed for the
preparation of various advanced materials with controlled architecture. New catalysts with …

From lab to market: current strategies for the production of biobased polyols

H Sardon, D Mecerreyes, A Basterretxea… - ACS Sustainable …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The global market for polyols was US 26.2billionin2019andisexpectedtogrowuptoUS 34.4
billion by 2024. Polyols are most commonly employed as the main component in the …

Towards high-performance sustainable polymers via isomerization-driven irreversible ring-opening polymerization of five-membered thionolactones

P Yuan, Y Sun, X Xu, Y Luo, M Hong - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
The development of sustainable polymers that possess useful material properties
competitive with existing petroleum-derived polymers is a crucial goal but remains a …

Organocatalysis for depolymerisation

C Jehanno, MM Pérez-Madrigal, J Demarteau… - Polymer …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymeric materials have been accumulating in the environment for decades as a result of
the linear way of consuming plastics. Unfortunately, the current approaches followed to treat …

Controlling polymer stereochemistry in ring-opening polymerization: a decade of advances sha** the future of biodegradable polyesters

MJL Tschan, RM Gauvin, CM Thomas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review highlights recent developments in the field of biodegradable polymeric materials
intended to replace non-degradable conventional plastics, focusing on studies from the last …

Polymerization of polar monomers mediated by main-group Lewis acid–base pairs

M Hong, J Chen, EYX Chen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of new or more sustainable, active, efficient, controlled, and selective
polymerization reactions or processes continues to be crucial for the synthesis of important …

Metal-free atom transfer radical polymerization with ppm catalyst loading under sunlight

Q Ma, J Song, X Zhang, Y Jiang, L Ji, S Liao - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Organocatalytic atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP) is recently emerging as an
appealing method for the synthesis of metal-free polymer materials with well-defined …

Urea anions: simple, fast, and selective catalysts for ring-opening polymerizations

B Lin, RM Waymouth - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017 - ACS Publications
Aliphatic polyesters and polycarbonates are a class of biorenewable, biocompatible, and
biodegradable materials. One of the most powerful methods for accessing these materials is …