Lewis Pair polymerization

18 Jun 2012

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In this HOT article, Chen et al. extend their previous work to present a combined experimental and computational investigation of Lewis Pair polymerization incorporating 11 Lewis acids and 10 achiral and chiral Lewis bases, for the polymerization of 12 different types of monomers.

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Lewis pair polymerization by classical and frustrated Lewis pairs: acid, base and monomer scope and polymerization mechanism
Yuetao Zhang, Garret M. Miyake, Mallory G. John, Laura Falivene, Lucia Caporaso, Luigi Cavallo and Eugene Y.-X. Chen
Dalton Trans., 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2DT30427A

This article will form part of a themed issue on Frustrated Lewis Pairs guest edited by Douglas W. Stephan. Other papers in this issue include:

Exchange chemistry of ^tBu₃P(CO₂)B(C₆F₅)₂Cl
Rebecca C. Neu, Gabriel Ménard and Douglas W. Stephan

Fixation of carbon dioxide and related small molecules by a bifunctional frustrated pyrazolylborane Lewis pair
Eileen Theuergarten, Janin Schlösser, Danny Schlüns, Matthias Freytag, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Peter G. Jones and Matthias Tamm

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