Crafting tailored, well-defined block copolymers of cyclic esters with an organomagnesium initiator
An organomagnesium complex containing an imino-phosphanamidinate ligand was found to be a competent catalyst for the ROP of <i>rac</i>-LA and ε-CL as well as their copolymerization <i>via</i> sequential addition of monomers, resulting in the formation of PCL-<i>b</i>-PLA diblock copolymer. The polymers obtained were characterized by <sup>1</sup>H, <sup>13</sup>C, DOSY NMR, DSC, TGA, POM, and SEM.
Authors
- Vadapalli Chandrasekhar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-2980)
- Alok Sarkar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0765-5045)
- Priyanku Nath (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0511-8634)
- Himadri Karmakar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2800-9835)
- Tarun K. Panda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0975-0118)
- Shweta Sagar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6785-0585)
- Aranya Ray (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8378-792X)
Institutions
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN)
- TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (IN)
- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Chemical Communications
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc05070c
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.60