Alkyl borane-mediated metal-free ring-opening (co) polymerizations of oxygenated monomers

C Zhang, X Geng, X Zhang, Y Gnanou… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sensibility to environmental concerns and the actual demand for polymeric materials free of
any metal contaminants in most applications have directed research towards significant …

Copolymerization involving sulfur-containing monomers

TJ Yue, WM Ren, XB Lu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Incorporating sulfur (S) atoms into polymer main chains endows these materials with many
attractive features, including a high refractive index, mechanical properties, electrochemical …

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 …

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 …

Exovinylene Cyclic Carbonates: Multifaceted CO2‐Based Building Blocks for Modern Chemistry and Polymer Science

C Ngassam Tounzoua, B Grignard… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon dioxide is a renewable, inexhaustible, and cheap alternative to fossil resources for
the production of fine chemicals and plastics. It can notably be converted into exovinylene …

Perfectly alternating and regioselective copolymerization of carbonyl sulfide and epoxides by metal‐free Lewis pairs

JL Yang, HL Wu, Y Li, XH Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The preparation of perfectly alternating and regioslective copolymers derived from the
copolymerization of carbonyl sulfide (COS) and epoxides by metal‐free Lewis pair catalysts …

The synthesis of degradable sulfur-containing polymers: precise control of structure and stereochemistry

TJ Yue, LY Wang, WM Ren - Polymer Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Sulfur-containing polymers are polymers containing at least one sulfur atom in the repeat
units of their main chains. The incorporation of sulfur atoms into the polymer main chains …

Poly (monothiocarbonate) s from the alternating and regioselective copolymerization of carbonyl sulfide with epoxides

M Luo, XH Zhang, DJ Darensbourg - Accounts of Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, ozonosphere
damage, and carbon dioxide (CO2) generation. It is a heterocumulene and structural …

Facile Synthesis of Functional Polytrithiocarbonates from Multicomponent Tandem Polymerizations of CS2, Thiols, and Alkyl Halides

L Chen, R Hu, BZ Tang - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Polytrithiocarbonates have attracted significant attention recently because of their good
thermal stability, light refractivity, crystallinity, and mechanical properties; however, the …

Synthesis of Chiral Sulfur‐Containing Polymers: Asymmetric Copolymerization of meso‐Epoxides and Carbonyl Sulfide

TJ Yue, WM Ren, L Chen, GG Gu, Y Liu… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Synthesis of chiral sulfur‐containing polymers was realized for the first time by the
asymmetric alternating copolymerization of achiral meso‐epoxides with carbonyl sulfide …