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High pressure water-initiated ring opening polymerization for the synthesis of well-defined α-hydroxy-ω-(carboxylic acid) polycaprolactones

Andrzej Dzienia, Paulina Maksym, Magdalena Tarnacka, Iwona Grudzka‐Flak, Sylwia Golba, Andrzej Zięba, Kamil Kamiński, Marian Paluch

Green Chemistry · 2017 · 21 citations · 30 references

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Abstract

A novel method to produce polyesters of a well-defined chemical structure, and narrow molecular weight distributions by using a combination of high pressure, temperature and water was proposed.

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