Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Chemically recyclable polymers: a circular economy approach to sustainability

M Hong, EYX Chen - Green Chemistry, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The current practices in the generation and disposal of synthetic polymers are largely
unsustainable. As part of the solution, the development of biodegradable polymers, which …

Organocatalytic reactions enabled by N-heterocyclic carbenes

DM Flanigan, F Romanov-Michailidis, NA White… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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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 …

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 …

Update and challenges in organo-mediated polymerization reactions

WN Ottou, H Sardon, D Mecerreyes, J Vignolle… - Progress in Polymer …, 2016 - Elsevier
Organocatalysis has become a very powerful tool for precision macromolecular chemistry,
as judged by the number of articles published in this field in the past decade. A variety of …

Lewis pair polymerization: perspective on a ten-year journey

ML McGraw, EYX Chen - Macromolecules, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ten years have passed since the conception of what was termed Lewis pair polymerization
(LPP) that employs Lewis acid and base in pairs to not only activate monomers but also …

Pushing Chemical Boundaries with N-Heterocyclic Olefins (NHOs): From Catalysis to Main Group Element Chemistry

MMD Roy, E Rivard - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus N-Heterocyclic olefins (NHOs) have gone from the topic of a few scattered (but
important) reports in the early 1990s to very recently being a ligand/reagent of choice in the …

Synchronous control of chain length/sequence/topology for precision synthesis of cyclic block copolymers from monomer mixtures

ML McGraw, RW Clarke, EYX Chen - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Precision synthesis of cyclic polymers with predictable molecular weight and low dispersity
is a challenging task, particularly concerning cyclic polar vinyl polymers through a rapid …

Macromolecular architectures through organocatalysis

S Hu, J Zhao, G Zhang, H Schlaad - Progress in Polymer Science, 2017 - Elsevier
In virtue of the rising demand for metal-free polymeric materials, organocatalytic
polymerization has emerged and blossomed unprecedentedly in the past 15 years into an …