The reaction mechanism for the organocatalytic ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide using a guanidine-based catalyst: Hydrogen-bonded or covalently bound?

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 130, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6749-6754

  Chuma, Anthony ^a   Horn, Hans W ^a   Swope, William C ^a   Pratt, Russell C ^b   Zhang, Lei ^c   Lohmeijer, Bas G G ^d   Wade, Charles G ^a   Waymouth, Robert M ^e   Hedrick, James L ^a   Rice, Julia E ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Seeo Inc   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d BASF SE   (Germany)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN BONDS; RING OPENING POLYMERIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; GUANIDINE; L LACTIDE;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

ACYLTRANSFERASE; GUANIDINE; LACTIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LACTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; COVALENT BOND; HYDROGEN BOND; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POLYMERIZATION; RING OPENING;

EID: 44349099746     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja0764411     Document Type: Article

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