A dual organic/organometallic approach for catalytic ring-opening polymerization.

Estefanía Piedra-Arroni (1) , Pierre Brignou (2) , Abderrahmane Amgoune (1) , Sophie M. Guillaume (2) , Jean-François Carpentier (2) , Didier Bourissou (1)

1 LHFA - Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée
2 ISCR - Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes

A dual catalytic system combining an original cationic zinc complex and a tertiary amine is shown to promote efficiently the polymerization of lactide under mild conditions.

Domaines: Catalyse

Estefanía Piedra-Arroni, Pierre Brignou, Abderrahmane Amgoune, Sophie M. Guillaume, Jean-François Carpentier, et al.. A dual organic/organometallic approach for catalytic ring-opening polymerization.. Chemical Communications, 2011, 47 (35), pp.9828-30. ⟨10.1039/c1cc13915k⟩. ⟨hal-00652159⟩