2015 - 2019

The technological and economic prospects for CO₂ utilization and removal

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C.Hepburn, E. Adlen, J. Beddington, E. A. Carter, S. Fuss, N. Mac Dowell, J. C. Minx, P. Smith and C. K. Williams, Nature, 2019, 575, 87-97

Orthogonal functionalization of alternating polyesters: selective patterning of (AB)_n sequences

N. Yi, T. T. D. Chen, Y. Unruangsri, Y. Zhu, and C. K. Williams, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 9974-9980

Part of the themed collection 2019 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection

Easy access to oxygenated block polymers via switchable catalysis

T. Stößer, G. S. Sulley, G. L. Gregory, and C. K. Williams, Nat. Commun., 2019, 10, 2668

This article was selected for Editor's Highlights (P. Saini)

Waste not, want not: CO₂ (re)cycling into block polymers

S. Raman, R. Raja, P. L. Arnold, M. G. Davidson, C. K. Williams, Chem. Comm., 2019, 55, 7315-7318

Heterodinuclear zinc and magnesium catalysts for epoxide/CO₂ ring opening copolymerizations

G. Trott, J. A. Garden, C. K. Williams, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4618-4627

This article was selected as an Editor's Choice (Serena DeBeer)

Isoselective Lactide Ring Opening Polymerisation using [2]Rotaxane Catalysts

J. Y.C. Lim, N. Yuntawattana, P. Beer, and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 8, 6007-6011

Metabolically Active, Fully Hydrolysable Polymersomes

Y. Zhu, A. Poma, L. Rizzello, V. M. Gouveia, L. Ruiz‐Perez, G. Battaglia, C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 4581-4586

Mapping the Origins of Luminescence in ZnO Nanowires by STEM-CL

O. W. Kennedy, E. R. White, A. Howkins, C. K. Williams, I. W. Boyd∥, P. A. Warburton and M. S. P. Shaffer, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2019, 10 , 386-392

Polynuclear alkoxy-zinc complexes of bowl-shaped macrocycles and their use in the copolymerisation of cyclohexene oxide and CO₂

J. R. Pankhurst, S. Paul, Y. Zhu, C. K. Williams and J. B. Love, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 4887-4893

The influence of oxygen on the surface interaction between CO₂ and copper studied by ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

A. Regoutz, G. Kerhervea, I. Villar-Garcia, C. K. Williams, D. J.Payne, Surface Science, 2018, 677, 121-127

Groups 1, 2 and Zn(II) Heterodinuclear Catalysts for Epoxide/CO₂ Ring-Opening Copolymerization

A. C. Deacy, C. D. Durr, J. A. Garden, A. J. P. White and C. K. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 15575

New Coordination Modes for Modified Schiff Base Ti(IV) Complexes and Their Control over Lactone Ring-Opening Polymerization Activity

C. D. Durr and C. K. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 14240

Switch Catalysis to Deliver Multi‐Block Polyesters From Mixtures of Propene Oxide, Lactide and Phthalic Anhydride

C. K. Williams, T. Stoesser, and D. Mulryan, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 16893-16897

Pentablock Copolymer from Tetracomponent Monomer Mixture Using a Switchable Dizinc Catalyst

T. T. D. Chen, Y. Zhu and C. K. Williams, Macromolecules, 2018, 51, 5346-5351

Indium Catalysts for Low-Pressure CO2/Epoxide Ring-Opening Copolymerisation: Evidence for a Mononuclear Mechanism

A. Thevenon, A. Cyriac, D. Myers, A. J. P. White, C. B. Durr and C. K. Williams, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140, 6893

Multiblock Polyesters Demonstrating High Elasticity and Shape Memory Effects

Y. Zhu, M. R. Radlauer, D. K. Schneiderman, M. S. P. Shaffer, M. A. Hillmyer and C. K. Williams, Macromolecules, 2018, 51, 2466

Selective polymerization catalysis from monomer mixtures: using a commercial Cr salen catalyst to access ABA block polyesters

T. Stößer and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 6337-6341

Layered zinc hydroxide monolayers by hydrolysis of organozincs

A. H. M. Leung, S. D. Pike, A. J. Clancy, H. C. Yau, W. J. Lee, K. L. Orchard, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 2135

PdIn intermetallic nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol

A. Garcia-Trenco, A. Regoutz, E. R. White, D. J. Payne, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Appl. Catal. B: Environment, 2018, 220, 9

'Switch' catalysis: from monomer mixtures to sequence-controlled block copolymers

T. Stößer, T. T. D. Chen, Y. Zhu and C. K. Williams, Phil. Trans., R. Soc. A., 2017, 376, 20170066

Bio-derived polymers for coating applications: comparing poly(limonene carbonate) and poly(cyclohexadiene carbonate)

T. Stößer, C. Li, J. Unruangsri, P. K. Saini, R. J. Sablong, M. A. R. Meier, C. K. Williams and C. Koning, Polym. Chem., 2017, 8, 6099

Ring opening polymerization of macrolactones: high conversions and activities using an yttrium catalyst

D. Myers, T. Witt, A. Cyriac, M. Bown, S. Mecking and C. K. Williams, Polym. Chem., 2017, 8, 5780

Colloidal Cu/ZnO catalysts for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol: investigating catalyst preparation and ligand effects

S. D. Pike, A. Garcia-Trenco, E. R. White, A. H. M. Leung, J. Weiner, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2017. DOI: 10.1039/C7CY01191A.

PdIn intermetallic nanoparticles for the Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol

A. Garcia-Trenco, A. Regoutz, E. R. White, D. J. Payne, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Appl. Catal. B: Environment, 2017, 220, 9-18

Di-Zinc-Aryl Complexes: CO₂ Insertions and Applications in Polymerisation Catalysis

C. Romain, J. A. Garden, G. Trott, A. Bouchard, A. J. P. White and C. K. Williams, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 30, 7367

Thermally Stable Zinc Disalphen Macrocycles Showing Solid-State and Aggregation-Induced Enhanced Emission

J. A. Marafie, D. D. C. Bradley and C. K. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 10, 5688

Phosphasalen Indium Complexes Showing High Rates and Isoselectivities in rac-Lactide Polymerizations

D. Myers, A. J. P. White, C. M. Forsyth, M. Bown and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 19, 5277

Zinc versus Magnesium: Orthogonal Catalyst Reactivity in Selective Polymerizations of Epoxides, Bio-derived Anhydrides and Carbon Dioxide

P. K. Saini, G. Fiorani, R. T. Mathers and C. K. Williams, Chem. Eur. J., 2017, 23, 18, 4260

Reversible Redox Cycling of Well-Defined, Ultrasmall Cu/Cu₂O Nanoparticles

S. D. Pike, E. R. White, A. Regoutz, N. Sammy, D. J. Payne, C. K. Williams and M. S. P. Shaffer, ACS Nano, 2017, 11, 3, 2714

Heterodinuclear titanium/zinc catalysis: synthesis, characterization and activity for CO₂/epoxide copolymerization and cyclic ester polymerization

J. A. Garden, A. J. P. White and C. K. Williams, Dalton Trans, 2017, 46, 8, 2532

Pd₂Ga-Based Colloids as Highly Active Catalysts for the Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol

A. Garcia-Trenco, E. R. White, A. Regoutz, D. J. Payne, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, ACS Catal., 2017, 7, 1186

Sustainable Polymers from Renewable Resources

Y. Zhu, C. Romain and C. K. Williams, Nature, 2016, 540, 354

Simple Phosphinate Ligands Access Zinc Clusters Identified in the Synthesis of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles

S. D. Pike, E. R. White, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Nature Commun., 2016

Dizinc Lactide Polymerization Catalysis: Hyperactivity by Control of Ligand Conformation and Metallic Cooperativity

A. Thevenon, C. Romain, M. S. Bennington, A. J. P. White, H. J. Davidson, S. Brooker and C. K. Williams, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 8680

Chemoselective Polymerizations from Mixtures of Epoxide, Lactone, Anhydride and Carbon Dioxide

C. Romain, Y. Zhu, P. Dingwall, S. Pail, H. S. Rzepa, A. Buchard and C. K. Williams, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 4120

A One-Step Cu/ZnO Quasi-Homogeneous Catalyst for DME Production from Syn-Gas

A. Garcia-Trenco, E. R. White, M. S. P. Shaffer and C. K. Williams, Cat. Sci. Tech., 2016, 6, 4389

To React the Impossible Ring

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D. Myers, A. Cyriac and C. K. Williams, Nature Chemistry, 2016, 8, 3-4

Catalysts for CO₂/Epoxide Ring-Opening Copolymerization

G. Trott, P.K. Saini, and C.K. Williams, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A-Math. Phys. Eng. Sci., 2016, 374.

Techno-Economic Assessment of the Production of Phthalic Anhydride from Corn Stover

S. Giarola, C. Romain, C.K. Williams, J.P. Hallett, and N. Shah, Chem. Eng. Res. Des., 2016, 107, 181-94

Selective Polymerization Catalysis: Controlling the Metal Chain End Group to Prepare Block Copolyesters

Y. Zhu, C. Romain and C. K. Williams, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 12179

Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Heterodinucelar Polymerization Catalyst

J. A. Garden, P. K. Saini and C. K. Williams, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 15078

Dinuclear Zinc Salen Catalysts for the Ring Opening Copolymerization of Epoxides and Carbon Dioxide or Anhydrides

A. Thevenon, J. A. Garden, A. J. P. White and C. K. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 11906

Influences of a Dizinc Catalyst and Bifunctional Chain Transfer Agents on the Polymer Architecture in the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Epsilon-Caprolactone

Y. Zhu, C. Romain, V. Poirier and C. K. Williams, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 2407

Ring-Opening Copolymerization (Rocop): Synthesis and Properties of Polyesters and Polycarbonates

S. Paul, Y. Zhu, C. Romain, R. Brooks, P.K. Saini and C.K. Williams, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6459

Carbon Dioxide Capture and Utilization: Using Dinuclear Catalysts to Prepare Polycarbonates

N. Yi, J. Unruangsri, J. Shaw and C.K. Williams, Faraday Discuss., 2015, 183, 67

Combining Sustainable Polymerization Routes for the Preparation of Polyesters, Polycarbonates, and Copolymers, in Green Polymer Chemistry: Biobased Materials and Biocatalysis

C. Romain and C.K. Williams; H.N. Cheng, R.A. Gross, and P.B. Smith, Editors. 2015, p. 135-46

Renewable Polycarbonates and Polyesters from 1,4-Cyclohexadiene

M. Winkler, C. Romain, M.A.R. Meier and C.K. Williams, Green Chem., 2015, 17, 300

Macrocyclic Dizinc(II) Alkyl and Alkoxide Complexes: Reversible CO₂ Uptake and Polymerization Catalysis Testing

C. Romain, M.S. Bennington, A.J.P. White, C.K. Williams and S. Brooker, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 11842

Sequence Selective Polymerization Catalysis: A New Route to ABA Block Copoly(Ester-b-Carbonate-b-Ester)

S. Paul, C. Romain, J. Shaw and C.K. Williams, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 6047

Scandium and Yttrium Phosphasalen Complexes as Initiators for Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Esters

C. Bakewell, A.J.P. White, N.J. Long and C.K. Williams, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 2204

Dual-Mechanism Antimicrobial Polymer-ZnO Nanoparticle and Crystal Violet-Encapsulated Silicone

S. Noimark, J. Weiner, N. Noor, E. Allan, C.K. Williams, M.S.P. Shaffer and I.P. Parkin, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2015, 25, 1367

Adding Value to Power Station Captured CO₂: Tolerant Zn and Mg Homogeneous Catalysts for Polycarbonate Polyol Production

A.M. Chapman, C. Keyworth, M.R. Kember, A.J.J. Lennox and C.K. Williams, ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 1581

From Organometallic Zinc and Copper Complexes to Highly Active Colloidal Catalysts for the Conversion of CO₂ to Methanol

N.J. Brown, A. Garcia-Trenco, J. Weiner, E.R. White, M. Allinson, Y. Chen, P.P. Wells, E.K. Gibson, K. Hellgardt, M.S.P. Shaffer and C.K. Williams, ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 2895

Comparing a Series of 8-Quinolinolato Complexes of Aluminium, Titanium and Zinc as Initiators for the Ring-Opening Polymerization of Rac-Lactide

C. Bakewell, G. Fateh-Iravani, D.W. Beh, D. Myers, S. Tabthong, P. Hormnirun, A.J.P. White, N. Long and C.K. Williams, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 12326