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Oct 2026
From zinc alkyl precursors to a 2,6-bis(imino)pyridine-ligated cationic zinc alkoxide: enabling controlled ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone.
Controlled alcoholysis of the cationic alkylzinc complexes [(DiPPBIP)ZnR]+[BArF4]- (ArF = 3,5-C6H3(CF3)2) (1) generates a DiPPBIP-supported cationic zinc alkoxide that acts as an efficient initiator for the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of ε-caprolactone. Although the alkyl precursors are sufficiently Lewis acidic...
J. M. Delgado-Collado, John J. Sandoval, F. J. Fernández-de-Córdova et al.
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