Lewis acid-mediated radical isotactic control

Scheme 5 The necessary requirements for effective isotactic control in Lewis acid-mediated radical polymerization.

Benjamin Noble and Michelle Coote s chapter on stereocontrol in Lewis acid-mediated radical polymerization brings much-needed order into the important area of polymer synthesis the lack of tacticity control is now the greatest obstacle to the synthesis of precisely controlled macromolecules by versatile and efficient radical-based processes. They bring mechanistic insights from small-molecule synthesis to bear on the problem, as they outline and assess some of the key factors likely to undeilie the success or failure of Lewis acid-mediated isotactic control in radical polymerization. 

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