Nimitsiriwat Nonsee, Marshall Edward L, Gibson Vernon C, Elsegood Mark R J, Dale Sophie H
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Oct 27;126(42):13598-9. doi: 10.1021/ja0470315.
In an unprecedented transformation, amide ligands are found to attack the imine carbon centers of tridentate Schiff base ligands attached to tin. The process is reversible, and the resultant (masked) amide species can be exploited as latent single-site initiators for the controlled polymerization of rac-lactide.