Synergistic empirical and theoretical study on the stereoselective mechanism for the aluminum salalen complex mediated polymerization of rac-lactide

摘要

Open your ring: Aluminum salalen complexes are used to initiate the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of rac-lactide (LA). The reaction pathway of the LA isomers was elucidated by a detailed computational study, which revealed that small changes in the catalytic "bag" implicate the change in induced tacticity (see scheme; PLA= polylactide).