Polymer synthesis, stannous octoate

Arvanitoyannis, 1., Nakayama, A., Kawasaki, N., and Yamamoto, N., 1993, Novel polylactides with aminopropanediol or aminohydroxymethylpropanediol using stannous octoate as catalyst - Synthesis, characterization and study of their biodegradability 2. Polymer 36 in -in9. 

Polyphosphoesters (PPE) is another important class of biomedical polymers [70] that can be prepared by stannous octoate catalyzed coordination-insertion polymerization method. A representative example is the synthesis of polyfethylene ethyl phosphate) (PEEP) as reported by Xiao et al. by the polymerization of the cyclic phosphoester 2-ethoxy-2-oxo-l,3,2-dioxaphospholane (EEP) using stannous octoate and dodecanol [71] (Fig. 2.20). 

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