Dual-initiating and living frustrated Lewis pairs: expeditious synthesis of biobased thermoplastic elastomers

Yun Bai; Huaiyu Wang; Jianghua He; Yuetao Zhang; Eugene Y.-X. Chen

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25069-6

Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Dual-initiating and living frustrated Lewis pairs: expeditious synthesis of biobased thermoplastic elastomers

Yun Bai,
Huaiyu Wang,
Jianghua He,
Yuetao Zhang,
Eugene Y.-X. Chen

Affiliations

Yun Bai: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Huaiyu Wang: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Jianghua He: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Yuetao Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Eugene Y.-X. Chen: Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25069-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Biobased poly(γ-methyl-α-methylene-γ-butyrolactone) (PMMBL) has attracted interest because it is biorenewable and exhibits superior properties to petroleum-based linear analog poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Here the authors report the synthesis of well-defined PMMBL-based ABA tri-block copolymers, enabled by dual-initiating and living frustrated Lewis pairs, which have superior mechanical properties compared to those of PMMA-based tri-BCPs.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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