Heteroleptic tethered NHC rare earth initiators for the ring opening polymerisation of <i>rac</i>-lactide.
Walker, Joseph W.; Chowdhury, Tajrian; Rosair, Georgina M.; Farnaby, Joy H.; Mansell, Stephen M.; McIntosh, Ruaraidh D.; Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 54 (2025) 14937–14946; doi:10.1039/d5dt01352f

data_1575797
_publ_section_title
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 Heteroleptic tethered NHC rare earth initiators for the ring opening
 polymerisation of <i>rac</i>-lactide.
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_journal_issue                   39
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'Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)'
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_journal_paper_doi               10.1039/d5dt01352f
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_journal_year                    2025
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Olex2 1.2
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2025-08-11 deposited with the CCDC.	2025-09-16 downloaded from the CCDC.
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'SADABS-2016/2 (Bruker,2016/2) was used for absorption correction. wR2(int) was 0.0959 before and 0.0573 after correction. The Ratio of minimum to maximum transmission is 0.8343. The \l/2 correction factor is Not present.'
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 Flack x determined using 1377 quotients [(I+)-(I-)]/[(I+)+(I-)]
 (Parsons, Flack and Wagner, Acta Cryst. B69 (2013) 249-259).
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_refine_ls_abs_structure_Flack   -0.029(6)
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_refine_ls_structure_factor_coef Fsqd
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'w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+1.4972P] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3'
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'Adding full bibliography for 1575797--1575801.cif.'
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1. Fixed Uiso
 At 1.2 times of:
  All C(H) groups, All C(H,H) groups
 At 1.5 times of:
  All C(H,H,H) groups
2.a Ternary CH refined with riding coordinates:
 C1(H1)
2.b Secondary CH2 refined with riding coordinates:
 C14(H14A,H14B), C15(H15A,H15B)
2.c Aromatic/amide H refined with riding coordinates:
 C3(H3), C4(H4), C5(H5), C6(H6), C9(H9), C10(H10), C11(H11), C12(H12),
 C16(H16), C17(H17), C18(H18)
2.d Idealised Me refined as rotating group:
 C19(H19A,H19B,H19C)
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