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Dinuclear Zinc–N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes for Either the Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactide or the Controlled Degradation of Polylactide Under Mild Conditions

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In Situ Versus Isolated Zinc Catalysts in the Selective Synthesis of Homo and Multi-block Polyesters

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Mechanistic Investigations of the Stereoselective Rare Earth Metal-Mediated Ring-Opening Polymerization of β-Butyrolactone

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Selective O -acyl ring-opening of β-butyrolactone catalyzed by trifluoromethane sulfonic acid: application to the preparation of well-defined block copolymers

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DFT investigations on the ring-opening polymerization of cyclic carbonates catalyzed by zinc-{β-diiminate} complexes

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Theoretical Study on the Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε-Caprolactone by [YMeX(THF)5]+ with X = BH4, NMe2

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Stereodivergent transformation of a natural polyester to enantiopure PHAs

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Access to Stereoblock Polyesters via Irreversible Chain-Transfer Ring-Opening Polymerization (ICT-ROP)

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