Initiation of ring-opening polymerization of lactide: The effect of metal alkoxide catalyst

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Volumn 995, Issue , 2012, Pages 8-16

  Cheshmedzhieva, Diana ^a   Angelova, Iva ^a   Ilieva, Sonia ^a   Georgiev, George S ^a   Galabov, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Lactide; Metal alkoxides; Polylactide; Reaction mechanism; Reactivity; Ring opening polymerization (ROP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864920934     PISSN: 2210271X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2012.06.015     Document Type: Article

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