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Iron(III) Salalen Complexes for the Polymerisation of Lactide

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Catalytic Reduction of Nitriles by Polymethylhydrosiloxane Using a Phenalenyl-Based Iron(III) Complex

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Novel epoxide-promoted polymerization of lactides mediated by a zinc guanidine complex: a potential strategy for the tin-free PLA industry

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Homoleptic and Heteroleptic Substituted Amidomethylpyridine Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Structure and Polymerization of rac‐Lactide

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Synthesis and Pyrolysis of Soluble Cyclic Hf-Schiff Base Polymers

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