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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 47, Issue 11, Pages 3105-3107Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0cc03987j
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Herein, we report the use of acid/base complexes for the ring opening polymerization of (L)-lactide. The salt formed from an equimolar reaction of benzoic acid and DBU produced a catalyst capable of controlled polymerizations allowing for targeted molecular weights and narrow polydispersities. The use of computational analysis suggests a bifunctional catalytic mechanism wherein both the monomer and propagating hydroxyl group are activated toward polymerization.
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