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

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_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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'Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003)'
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_journal_paper_doi               10.1039/d5dt01352f
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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 0.1405 before and 0.0777 after correction. The Ratio of minimum to maximum transmission is 0.1413. The \l/2 correction factor is Not present.'
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 Twinning involves inversion, so Flack parameter cannot be determined
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'w=1/[\s^2^(Fo^2^)+(0.1652P)^2^] where P=(Fo^2^+2Fc^2^)/3'
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'Adding full bibliography for 1575797--1575801.cif.'
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1. Twinned data refinement
 Scales: 0.858(7)
 0.0004(9) 0.142(7) -0.0000(9)
2. 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
3.a Secondary CH2 refined with riding coordinates:
 C14(H14A,H14B), C15(H15A,H15B)
3.b Aromatic/amide H refined with riding coordinates:
 C3(H3), C4(H4), C5(H5), C6(H6), C9(H9), C10(H10), C11(H11), C12(H12),
 C17(H17), C18(H18)
3.c Idealised Me refined as rotating group:
 C19(H19A,H19B,H19C), C20(H20A,H20B,H20C), C21(H21A,H21B,H21C), C22(H22A,H22B,
 H22C), C23(H23A,H23B,H23C), C24(H24A,H24B,H24C), C25(H25A,H25B,H25C), C26(H26A,
 H26B,H26C), C27(H27A,H27B,H27C), C28(H28A,H28B,H28C), C29(H29A,H29B,H29C),
 C30(H30A,H30B,H30C), C31(H31A,H31B,H31C)
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