Kinetic Aspects of the Coordination-Insertion ROP

Significant advances in the understanding of the coordination-insertion ROP mechanism have been made owing to the kinetic studies by Duda and Penczek. 

Apart from the alkoxides aggregation, the different factors which affect the kinetics of the (di)lactones ROP initiated by aluminum alkoxides might be summarized as follows. 

2 By provoking the complete deaggregation of the growing chains as initiated by R2AIOR. This is the case of secondary amines, the addition of which increases the overall rate of polymerization [55]. 

Synthesis and (Co)polymerization of Functional Cyclic Ester Monomers 

Synthesis of Block and Graft Copolymers by Combination of (Di)lactones Ring Opening Polymerization with Other Living/Controlled Polymerization Processes 

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