Plastics and environmental health: the road ahead

EJ North, RU Halden - Reviews on environmental health, 2013 - degruyter.com
Plastics continue to benefit society in innumerable ways, even though recent public focus on
plastics has centered mostly on human health and environmental concerns, including their …

Synthesis of biodegradable polymers from renewable resources

MJL Tschan, E Brulé, P Haquette, CM Thomas - Polymer Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The vast majority of commodity materials are obtained from fossil fuels. However, many
studies predict that all fossil resources will be depleted within a few centuries. Biomass …

Ring-opening copolymerization (ROCOP): synthesis and properties of polyesters and polycarbonates

S Paul, Y Zhu, C Romain, R Brooks, PK Saini… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Controlled routes to prepare polyesters and polycarbonates are of interest due to the
widespread application of these materials and the opportunities provided to prepare new …

Recent trends in catalytic polymerizations

DJ Walsh, MG Hyatt, SA Miller, D Guironnet - ACS Catalysis, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polymers have become one of the largest and most important materials we use in daily life.
Their popularity has stemmed from their wide range of material properties combined with …

Poly (hydroxyalkanoates): Production, applications and end-of-life strategies–life cycle assessment nexus

JK Muiruri, JCC Yeo, Q Zhu, E Ye… - ACS Sustainable …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The runaway production and consumption of oil-based plastics are key drivers of global
warming and the increased carbon footprint. Besides, most of this plastic debris ends up in …

Synthesis of nonalternating polyketones using cationic diphosphazane monoxide-palladium complexes

SY Chen, RC Pan, M Chen, Y Liu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Copolymerization of olefin with carbon monoxide has received considerable interest from
both academia and industry, and the introduction of polar carbonyl group renders the …

Beyond Stereoselectivity, switchable catalysis: Some of the last frontier challenges in ring‐opening polymerization of cyclic esters

SM Guillaume, E Kirillov, Y Sarazin… - … –A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Metal‐based catalysts and initiators have played a pivotal role in the ring‐opening
polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters, thanks to their high activity and remarkable ability to …

Dinuclear catalysts for the ring opening polymerization of lactide

AB Kremer, P Mehrkhodavandi - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Poly (lactic acid)(PLA) is by far the most commonly produced biodegradable
polyester. Metal-mediated ring opening polymerization of lactide is the most studied route for …

Chirality-Directed Regioselectivity: An Approach for the Synthesis of Alternating Poly(Lactic-co-Glycolic Acid)

Y Lu, JH Swisher, TY Meyer… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of alternating poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) via a regioselective ring-
opening polymerization of (S)-methyl glycolide. An enantiopure aluminum salen catalyst …

Tandem synthesis of alternating polyesters from renewable resources

C Robert, F De Montigny, CM Thomas - Nature communications, 2011 - nature.com
The vast majority of commodity materials are obtained from petrochemical feedstocks. These
resources will plausibly be depleted within the next 100 years, and the peak in global oil …