Effective Ligand Design: Zinc Complexes with Guanidine Hydroquinoline Ligands for Fast Lactide Polymerization and Chemical Recycling

Alina Hermann; Tabea Becker; Martin A Schäfer; Alexander Hoffmann; Sonja Herres-Pawlis

doi:10.1002/cssc.202201603

Effective Ligand Design: Zinc Complexes with Guanidine Hydroquinoline Ligands for Fast Lactide Polymerization and Chemical Recycling

ChemSusChem. 2022 Sep 20;15(18):e202201603. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202201603. Epub 2022 Sep 1.

Authors

Alina Hermann¹, Tabea Becker¹, Martin A Schäfer¹, Alexander Hoffmann¹, Sonja Herres-Pawlis¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1a, 52074, Aachen, Germany.

PMID: 36048139
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202201603

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Sonja Herres-Pawlis at RWTH Aachen University. The image shows how the zinc guanidine complexes help a circular economy of bioplastics by mediating the ring-opening polymerization of lactide and the depolymerization of polylactide (PLA). The Research Article itself is available at 10.1002/cssc.202201075.

MeSH terms

Catalysis
Dioxanes
Guanidine
Guanidines
Humans
Ligands
Polyesters* / chemistry
Polymerization
Zinc* / chemistry

Substances

Dioxanes
Guanidines
Ligands
Polyesters
dilactide
Zinc
Guanidine