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Discrete Metal Catalysts for Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Chiral Racemic β-Lactones

✍ Scribed by Jean-François Carpentier

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
443 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Poly(β‐hydroxyalkanoate)s (PHAs) are a class of aliphatic polyesters that can be efficiently synthesized by ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) of β‐lactones. The case of chiral racemic β‐substituted β‐lactones is particularly appealing since these monomers open the way to original tacticities and materials different from those biotechnologically produced. In this overview, after briefly surveying general considerations associated to the ROP of β‐lactones and metal‐based catalysts used in stereoselective ROP of racemic β‐butyrolactone, special emphasis is given to discrete rare earth catalysts that have allowed the preparation of highly syndiotactic poly(3‐hydroxybutyrate)s. Recent developments – such as preparation of stereocontrolled PHAs with pendant structural groups via (co)polymerization of functional β‐substituted β‐lactones, and highly alternating copolymers obtained by ROP of mixtures of enantiomerically pure but different monomers – are also discussed.

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