Zirconium complexes of bipyrrolidine derived salan ligands for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide.
Herein we report the synthesis and characterisation of a series of Zr(IV) 2,2'-bipyrrolidine-salan derived complexes and their exploitation for the ring opening polymerisation of rac-lactide to afford highly isotactically enriched polymers.
Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. mj205@bath.ac.uk.
Matthew D
MD
Jones
Stuart L
SL
Hancock
Paul
P
McKeown
Pascal M
PM
Schäfer
Antoine
A
Buchard
Lynne H
LH
Thomas
Mary F
MF
Mahon
John P
JP
Lowe