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Microstructure Analysis of a CO2 Copolymer from Styrene Oxide at the Diad Level.

Wu GP, Zu YP, Xu PX, Ren WM, Lu XB.SourceState Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024 (China), Fax: (+86) 411-84986256.
Chemistry, an Asian journal.Chem Asian J.2013 Aug;8(8):1854-62. doi: 10.1002/asia.201300115. Epub 2013 May 24.
A large amount of interesting information on the alternating copolymerization of CO2 with terminal epoxides has already been reported, such as the regiochemistry of epoxide ring-opening and the stereochemistry of the carbonate unit sequence in the polymer chain. Moreover, the microstructures of CO2
PMID 23712930

Modifications in the nitric acid oxidation of D-mannose: X-ray crystal structure of N,N'-dimethyl D-mannaramide.

Carpenter CA, Hardcastle KI, Kiely DE.SourceShafizadeh Rocky Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA. ccarpenter01@ugf.edu
Carbohydrate research.Carbohydr Res.2013 Jul 19;376:29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.carres.2013.05.004. Epub 2013 May 16.
Nitric acid oxidation of D-mannose was carried out under an oxygen atmosphere using a computer controlled reactor. The process represents a catalytic oxidation of D-mannose with oxygen as the terminal oxidant. The crude oxidation product was esterified with methanolic HCl and the esterified product
PMID 23743360

Franssen NM, Reek JN, de Bruin B.SourceVan't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), Department of Homogeneous and Supramolecular Catalysis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94720, 1090 GS Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003).Dalton Trans.2013 Jul 7;42(25):9058-68. doi: 10.1039/c3dt32941k. Epub 2013 Jan 30.
Copolymerisation of carbenes and olefins (ethene), mediated by Rh-based catalyst precursors, is presented as a new, proof-of-concept methodology for the controlled synthesis of functional polymers. The reactions studied show that olefin-carbene polymerisation reactions provide a viable alternative t
PMID 23361412