Crystalline CO2-based polycarbonates prepared from racemic catalyst through intramolecularly interlocked assembly

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Ye ^a   Ren, Wei Min ^a   Zhang, Wei Ping ^a   Zhao, Rong Rong ^a   Lu, Xiao Bing ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CARBONYL COMPOUND; CATALYST; COBALT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; METHANE; POLYMER; POLYMERIZATION; RACEMIZATION;

EID: 84944348543     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9594     Document Type: Article

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