On the way to biodegradable poly(hydroxy butyrate) from propylene oxide and carbon monoxide via β-butyrolactone: Multisite catalysis with newly designed chiral indole-imino chromium(III) complexes
ligand families and on their chromium(III) complexes as enantioselective catalysts for the conversion of propylene oxide and carbon monoxide to enantioenriched β-butyrolactone, the key monomer for the production of PHB by ring-opening polymerization. The enantioselective carbonylation catalysts are based on new chiral tri- and tetradentate [N2O] and [N4] chromium(III) complexes containing chiral indolaldimine