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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6804 - 6806, DOI: 10.1039/b915211c

New facets of an old ligand: titanium and zirconium complexes of phenylenediamine bis(phenolate) in lactide polymerisation catalysis

Ayellet L. Zelikoff, Jacob Kopilov, Israel Goldberg, Geoffrey W. Coates and Moshe Kol

Phenylenediamine bis(phenolate) binds in the reduced dianionic form to titanium and zirconium alkoxides giving either mononuclear or bridging dinuclear complexes depending on the metal precursors; the fluxional mononuclear titanium complex is found to exhibit extremely high activity in polymerisation of rac-lactide in the melt.

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