Nature Communications (May 2018)

Precise synthesis of sulfur-containing polymers via cooperative dual organocatalysts with high activity

  • Cheng-Jian Zhang,
  • Hai-Lin Wu,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jia-Liang Yang,
  • Xing-Hong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04554-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sulfur-containing polymers are useful commodities, but there is still a big challenge to produce such polymers in a controlled fashion. Here the authors show a metal-free living copolymerization between carbonyl sulfide and epoxides via cooperative catalysis.