Journal of the American Chemical Society
Main-Chain Ketone Installation in Polyethylene Chains: A Metal-Free Strategy toward Photodegradable Plastics.
Shilin Cui, Zhipeng Lu, Jaqueline C Lopez, Moritz Kränzlein, Christopher J Kim, Song Lin, Anne M LaPointe, Geoffrey W Coates
Published: 202510.1021/jacs.5c09943
Abstract
Polyethylene with in-chain isolated ketones is an attractive target for achieving photodegradability while maintaining polyolefin material properties. This work reports a method to functionalize post-consumer polyethylene through radical C-H activati…
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