A one-pot synthesis of a triblock copolymer from propylene oxide/carbon dioxide and lactide: intermediacy of polyol initiators. uri icon

abstract

  • Just add water: The copolymerization of propylene oxide and CO2 catalyzed by a cobalt complex is tolerant to the addition of water as chain-transfer reagent to afford polyols (HO-(PPC)-OH) with narrow molecular weight distributions (see picture; PPC=poly(propylene carbonate); PLA=polylactide). The addition of an organocatalyst to these polyols in the presence of lactides produces well-defined triblock copolymers (PLA-b-PPC-b-PLA).

published proceedings

  • Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

altmetric score

  • 6.75

author list (cited authors)

  • Darensbourg, D. J., & Wu, G.

citation count

  • 125

complete list of authors

  • Darensbourg, Donald J||Wu, Guang-Peng

publication date

  • September 2013

publisher