POLYMonday, August 20, 2007

1:25 PM-5:25 PM Westin Boston Waterfront -- Douglas, Oral
Polymers from Renewable Resources
Organizer:Marc A. Hillmyer
Official:Geoffrey W. Coates
1:25 PMMechanistic insights gained from studies of lactide polymerization by slow (M = Al) and fast (M = Ca) metal coordinate catalysts
Malcolm H. Chisholm, Judith Gallucci, Keith T Quisenberry, Gulsah Yaman, Zhiping Zhou
1:50 PMInsights into the mechanisms of cyclic ester polymerizations catalyzed by metal complexes
Carter M. Silvernail, William B. Tolman, Marc A. Hillmyer
2:15 PMGroup 4 metal initiators for the stereoselective polymerization of rac-lactide
Matthew D. Jones, Amanda J. Chmura, Christopher J. Chuck, Matthew G. Davidson, Matthew D. Lunn
2:40 PMSingle-site rare earth catalysts for immortal ROP of lactide and ROP of morpholine-2,5-dione
Abderramane Amgoune, Pascal Castro, Christophe M. Thomas, Jean-Francois Carpentier
3:05 PMIntermission
3:20 PMProduction of aliphatic polycarbonates from carbon dioxide and oxiranes and oxetanes
Donald J. Darensbourg
3:45 PMPlastics with reduced environmental impact: CO2 as a comonomer for polymer synthesis
Scott D. Allen
4:10 PMBranched polylactides and polylactide particles
Louis M. Pitet, Kevin P. McNamee, Daniel M. Knauss
4:35 PMNew polylactides from α-hydroxyacids derived from renewable resources
Gregory L. Baker, Milton R. Smith III
5:00 PMPerfluoropolyether-co-polylactide segmented copolymers: Surface, biodegradation, and rheological properties
Dahlia Haynes, Akhilesh Singh, Graham Harrison, Chih Chao Yang, Karen J. L. Burg, Dennis W. Smith Jr.

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The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007