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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 2, Issue 12, Pages 2758-2763Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1py00206f
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
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Poly(lactides) (PLAs), or poly(lactic acid)s, are among the first commercial biodegradable polymers that have the potential to become commodity plastics. meso-Lactide, a by-product of L-lactide production, will become more easily available. Highly stereoregular poly(meso-lactides) should be crystalline and thus interesting as polymeric material. In this short review, initiators capable of inducing the stereoselective ring-opening polymerization of meso-lactide to ideally give syndiotactic or heterotactic PLAs will be discussed. Mechanistic discussions with regard to understanding the reactivity differences between the various lactide monomers are included.
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