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Highly active aluminium catalysts for room temperature ring-opening polymerisation of <i>rac</i>-lactide

Sami Gesslbauer, H. Cheek, Andrew J. P. White, Charles Romain

Dalton Transactions · 2018 · 32 citations · 26 references

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A new series of aluminium complexes bearing 'catam' ligands has been synthesised and fully characterised. They were found to exhibit high activity at room temperature for rac-lactide ring-opening polymerisation, a rather rare feature for aluminium-based catalysts.

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