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SUBMITTER: Myers D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5434947 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Myers Dominic D White Andrew J P AJP Forsyth Craig M CM Bown Mark M Williams Charlotte K CK
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20170405 19
Polylactide (PLA) is the leading bioderived polymer produced commercially by the metal-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization of lactide. Control over tacticity to produce stereoblock PLA, from rac-lactide improves thermal properties but is an outstanding challenge. Here, phosphasalen indium catalysts feature high rates (30±3 m<sup>-1</sup> min<sup>-1</sup> , THF, 298 K), high control, low loadings (0.2 mol %), and isoselectivity (P<sub>i</sub> =0.92, THF, 258 K). Furthermore, the phosphasalen i ...[more]