Fast and Living Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide Initiated with In-situ-Generated Calcium Alkoxides

Journal of Polymers and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-38

  Zhong, Zhiyuan ^a   Schneiderbauer, Stefan ^b   Dijkstra, Pieter J ^a   Westerhausen, Matthias ^b   Feijen, Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aliphatic polyesters; Calcium alkoxides; Lactide; Living polymerization; Ring opening polymerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042875759     PISSN: 15662543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016092420618     Document Type: Article

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