title: Aluminium salalens vs. salans: "Initiator Design" for the isoselective polymerisation of rac-lactide.
abstract: We report the rationalised design of aluminium initiators and their application for ROP of rac-lactide (rac-LA). A very minor change to the ligand backbone (imine reduction) to give secondary amines was found to have a dramatic effect on activity and selectivity with isotactic PLA being realised.
authors.affiliation: Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK and Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. mj205@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McKeown
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. mj205@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. mj205@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kociok-Köhn
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. mj205@bath.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Matthew D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Jones