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ReviewNature communications2021

Advances in heterometallic ring-opening (co)polymerisation catalysis.

Weronika Gruszka, Jennifer A Garden

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Review in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. (AB)Macromolecules · 2025
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  6. Sequence Control in Sulphur-Containing Ring-Opening Co- and Terpolymerisations.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Weronika GruszkaEaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Jennifer A GardenEaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. j.garden@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-9027-4931

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Truly sustainable plastics require renewable feedstocks coupled with efficient production and end-of-life degradation/recycling processes. Some of the most useful degradable materials are aliphatic polyesters, polycarbonates and polyamides, which are often prepared via ring-opening (co)polymerisation (RO(CO)P) using an organometallic catalyst. While there has been extensive research into ligand development, heterometallic cooperativity offers an equally promising yet underexplored strategy to improve catalyst performance, as heterometallic catalysts often exhibit significant activity and selectivity enhancements compared to their homometallic counterparts. This review describes advances in heterometallic RO(CO)P catalyst design, highlighting the overarching structure-activity trends and reactivity patterns to inform future catalyst design.

Identifiers

PMID34059676
PMCPMC8167082

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