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Zirconium complexes of bipyrrolidine derived salan ligands for the isoselective polymerisation of <i>rac</i>-lactide

Matthew D. Jones, Stuart L. Hancock, Paul McKeown, Pascal M. Schäfer, Antoine Buchard, Lynne H. Thomas, Mary F. Mahon, John P. Lowe

Chemical Communications · 2014 · 110 citations · 37 references

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Herein we report the synthesis and characterisation of a series of Zr(IV) 2,2'-bipyrrolidine-salan derived complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide to afford highly isotactically enriched polymers.

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