Mechanistic Studies of Cyclohexene Oxide/CO<sub>2</sub> Copolymerization by a Chromium(III) Pyridylamine‐Bis(Phenolate) Complex
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Chromium(III) chlorido amine‐bis(phenolate) complexes paired with nucleophilic co‐catalysts are a promising family of catalysts for the copolymerization of CO 2 and epoxides to selectively produce polycarbonates with a very high degree of carbonate linkages. Single‐component catalyst systems can be prepared, where the neutral nucleophile, 4‐dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP), is coordinated to the metal site to provide a stable octahedral Cr III complex. These complexes possess the potential for both anionic (from the chlorido ligand) or neutral (DMAP) nucleophilic epoxide ring‐opening during the proposed rate‐determining initiation step. Concentration effect studies support a first‐order dependence of the polymerization rate on the concentration of single‐component catalyst. End‐group analysis of polycarbonates by MALDI‐TOF MS indicate the presence of predominantly DMAP‐initiated chains as well as the occurrence of chain‐transfer events resulting in ether linkages, likely from the presence of cyclohexene diol formed by the reaction of cyclohexene oxide and adventitious water.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".