The Chemical Recycling of Polyesters for a Circular Plastics Economy: Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

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Depolymerization of End‐of‐Life Poly(lactide) to Lactide via Zinc‐Catalysis

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Chemical Degradation of End-of-Life Poly(lactic acid) into Methyl Lactate by a Zn(II) Complex

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Chemical recycling of poly(lactic acid) by water-ethanol solutions

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Zn(HMDS) 2 as a Versatile Transesterification Catalyst for Polyesters Synthesis and Degradation toward a Circular Materials Economy Approach

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Antimony Ethylene Glycolate and Catecholate Compounds: Structural Characterization of Polyesterification Catalysts

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Acid-Triggered, Acid-Generating, and Self-Amplifying Degradable Polymers

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Mono- and dimeric zinc( ii ) complexes for PLA production and degradation into methyl lactate – a chemical recycling method

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Depolymerization of End‐of‐Life Poly(lactide) via 4‐Dimethylaminopyridine‐Catalyzed Methanolysis

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Kinetics of Methyl Lactate Formation from the Transesterification of Polylactic Acid Catalyzed by Zn(II) Complexes

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Pyrolysis mechanism of Poly(lactic acid) for giving lactide under the catalysis of tin

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Steric effects in the basic hydrolysis of poly(ethylene terephthalate)

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Selective or living organopolymerization of a six-five bicyclic lactone to produce fully recyclable polyesters

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Ferric chloride as an efficient and reusable catalyst for methanolysis of poly(lactic acid) waste

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The Depolymerization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes from Ionic Liquids

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Poly(hydroxy acids) derived from the self-condensation of hydroxy acids: from polymerization to end-of-life options

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Design of a heterogeneous catalytic process for the continuous and direct synthesis of lactide from lactic acid

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Ethyl Lactate Production from the Catalytic Depolymerisation of Post-consumer Poly(lactic acid)

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Tin( ii ) 2-ethylhexanoate catalysed methanolysis of end-of-life poly(lactide)

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