Stewart, Jack A., McKeown, Paul, Driscoll, Oliver J., Mahon, Mary F., Ward, Benjamin D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1406-5940 and Jones, Matthew D.
2019.
Tuning the thiolen: Al(III) and Fe(III) thiolen complexes for the isoselective ROP of rac-Lactide.
Macromolecules
52
(15)
, pp. 5977-5984.
10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01205
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Abstract
A series of five iron and aluminum complexes bearing {ONSO} imine thiobis(phenolate) ligands have been prepared and applied to the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of rac-lactide. Fe(1)Cl produced polylactide with a very strong isotactic bias (Pm = 0.79–0.89) and well-defined melting temperatures (Tm = 154–181 °C). The polymers have been characterized by a combination of 1H{1H} NMR, 13C{1H} NMR, gel permeation chromatography, thermogravimetric analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, and powder X-ray diffraction. Fe(1)Cl has also been shown to activate CO2, at atmospheric pressure and concentrations, to form a carbonato-bridged dimer. Fe(2–5)Cl and Al(1–5)Me were also active for lactide ROP demonstrating good-molecular-weight control (Đ = 1.04–1.12) and moderate isotactic preference (Pm = 0.56–0.72), with polymerization outcome correlating with ligand substituents.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Chemistry |
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society |
| ISSN: | 0024-9297 |
| Funders: | EPSRC |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 7 August 2019 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 18 July 2019 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2024 15:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/124762 |
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