Human civilization in the 21st century is largely sustained by modern chemical technologies. The raw materials used in the manufacturing of a wide range of products, from clothing to plastics and ...
In the realm of reactivity, the vinyl carbocation is a beast so fleeting, so keen to combine or rearrange, that many have doubted that it can be tamed to create molecules in a stereoselective way. But ...
In this review, our recent results on the concurrent cationic vinyl-addition and ring-opening copolymerization of vinyl ethers (VEs) and oxiranes are summarized, with particular emphasis on the ...