Degradable Polyolefin Materials Enabled by Catalytic Methods

Project Information

DEEPCAT

Grant agreement ID: 832480

DOI

10.3030/832480

Project closed

EC signature date 8 April 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 494 829,00

EU contribution

€ 2 494 829,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT KONSTANZ
Germany

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (34)

Keto-Polyethylene Material from Pd(II)-Catalyzed Copolymerization with Continuous Carbon Monoxide Feed

Author(s): Steffen Iberl, Maria Voccia, Ida Ritacco, Lukas Odenwald, Maximilian Baur, Laura Falivene, Lucia Caporaso, Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Catalysis, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 8259-8267, ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5c00935

Polymorphism and Stretch-Induced Transformations of Sustainable Polyethylene-Like Materials

Author(s): Hamed Janani; Stephanie F. Marxsen; Marcel Eck; Stefan Mecking; Kohji Tashiro; Rufina G. Alamo
Published in: ACS Macro Letters, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 201-206, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00639

Closed-Loop Recyclable and Nonpersistent Polyethylene-like Polyesters

Author(s): Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Accounts of Chemical Research, Issue 57, 2024, Page(s) 971 - 980, ISSN 1520-4898
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00811

Molecularly Defined Polyolefin Vitrimers from Catalytic Insertion Polymerization

Author(s): Lukas Odenwald; Florian P. Wimmer; Nina K. Mast; Max G. Schußmann; Manfred Wilhelm; Stefan Mecking
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 144, 2022, Page(s) 13226–13233, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03778

Degradable and Recyclable Polyesters from Multiple Chain Length Bio- and Waste-Sourceable Monomers

Author(s): Taylor Frederick Nelson; Dario Rothauer; Michael Sander; Stefan Mecking
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Issue 63, 2023, Page(s) e202310729, ISSN 1521-3757
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202310729

Living Aqueous Microemulsion Polymerization with Robust Ni(II) Phosphinephenolato Catalysts

Author(s): Fei Lin, Tobias O. Morgen
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 143, 2021, Page(s) 20605–20608, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c10488

High Density Polyethylene with In-Chain Photolyzable and Hydrolyzable Groups Enabling Recycling and Degradation

Author(s): Maximilian Baur; Nina Mast; Jan Brahm; Rosa Habè; Tobias Oliver Morgen; Stefan Mecking
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Issue 63, 2023, Page(s) e202310990, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202310990

Waxes from Long-Chain Aliphatic Difunctional Monomers

Author(s): Marcel Eck; Celia Stoltze; Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2023, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c06951

Aliphatic–Aromatic Copolyesters with Waste-Sourceable Multiple Chain-Length Building Blocks

Author(s): Dario Rothauer, Stefan Mecking, Taylor F. Nelson
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 3280-3288, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c09698

Correlation of Enzymatic Depolymerization Rates with the Structure of Polyethylene-Like Long-Chain Aliphatic Polyesters

Author(s): Simon T. Schwab, Leonie Y. Bühler, David Schleheck, Taylor F. Nelson, Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Macro Letters, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1245-1250, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00463

Polyethylenes with Combined In-Chain and Side-Chain Functional Groups from Catalytic Terpolymerization of Carbon Monoxide and Acrylate.

Author(s): Stefan Mecking; Maximilian Baur
Published in: ACS Macro Lett., Issue 11, 2022, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00459

Irreversible Deactivation Pathways in Ni(II)-Catalyzed Nonalternating Ethylene–Carbon Monoxide Copolymerization

Author(s): Lukas Odenwald, Lukas Wursthorn, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 7182-7186, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c16468

Synthesis and Deconstruction of Polyethylene-type Materials

Author(s): Simon T. Schwab; Maximilian Baur; Taylor F. Nelson; Stefan Mecking
Published in: Chemical Reviews, Issue 124, 2024, Page(s) 2327–2351, ISSN 1520-6890
Publisher: Amercian Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00587

Analysis of the isothermal crystallization kinetics and melting points of sustainable long-spaced aliphatic polyesters type PE-X,Y

Author(s): Hamed Janani, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo
Published in: Polymer, Issue 337, 2026, Page(s) 129003, ISSN 0032-3861
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2025.129003

Attractive Ni ^… O Interactions Enable Non‐Alternating Ethylene‐Carbon Monoxide Copolymerization

Author(s): Yajun Zhao, Michele Tomasini, Inigo Göttker‐Schnetmann, Laura Falivene, Lucia Caporaso, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2026, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.6761777

Nonalternating Ethylene/Carbon Monoxide Copolymerization by a Bimetallic Phosphine Phenolate Ni(II) Catalyst

Author(s): Steffen Iberl, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Organometallics, Issue 45, 2026, Page(s) 1406-1412, ISSN 0276-7333
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6c00112

Circular Melt-Spun Textile Fibers from Polyethylene-like Long-Chain Polyesters

Author(s): Katrin Wurst, Melissa Birkle, Katharina J. Scherer, Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Issue 6, 2024, Page(s) 9219-9225, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.4c01570

Mechanistic Insights into Ni(II)-Catalyzed Nonalternating Ethylene-Carbon Monoxide

Author(s): Maria Voccia, Lukas Odenwald, Fei Lin, Maximilian Baur, Laura Falivene, Stefan Mecking, Lucia Caporaso
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 00027863, 2022, Page(s) 15111–15117, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04563

Aqueous Keto-Polyethylene Dispersions from Catalytic Copolymerization of Ethylene and Carbon Monoxide in Water

Author(s): Maximilian Baur, Rosa Habé, Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Macro Letters, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 841-846, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00313

Origin of Suppressed Chain Transfer in Phosphinephenolato Ni(II) Catalyzed Ethylene Polymerization

Author(s): F. Lin, M. Voccia, L. Odenwald, I. Göttker-Schnetmann, L. Falivene, L. Caporaso, S. Mecking
Published in: J. Am. Chem. Soc., Issue 145, 2023, Page(s) 27950–27957, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c06597

Biodegradable High-Density Polyethylene-like Material.

Author(s): Marcel Eck; Simon Timm Schwab; Taylor Frederick Nelson; Katrin Wurst; Steffen Iberl; David Schleheck; Christoph Link; Glauco Battagliarin; Stefan Mecking
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Issue 63, 2023, ISSN 1521-3773
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202213438

Recyclable and Degradable Ionic Substituted Long-Chain Polyesters

Author(s): Anne Saumer; Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Issue 11, 2023, Page(s) 12414 – 12422, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c03141

Crystallization Rate Minima of Aliphatic Polyesters Type PE-<i>X</i>,<i>Y</i> in a Wide Range of Undercooling: Role of CH₂ Sequence Length and Layered Crystallites

Author(s): Hamed Janani, Clay W. Kramer, Nickolas R. Boyd, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 5688-5705, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c00614

Scope of Ni(II)-CatalyzedNonalternating Ethylene/CarbonMonoxide Copolymerization

Author(s): Lukas Wursthorn, Steffen Iberl, Yajun Zhao, Michele Tomasini, Marie Fritschi, Ida Ritacco, Maria Voccia, Laura Falivene, Kohei Takahashi, Bin Lu, Kyoko Nozaki, Lucia Caporaso, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 148, 2026, Page(s) 31181-31189, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c07158

Impact of Carbonyl Group Incorporation in Semicrystalline High-Density Polyethylene

Author(s): Afiq Anuar, Arman Edalat, Lea Ringelhan, Qiang Yu, Maximilian Baur, Albrecht Petzold, Stefan Mecking, Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Kay Saalwächter
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 58, 2025, Page(s) 11685-11695, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.5c02288

Crystal Structures of Sustainable Long-Spaced Aliphatic Polyesters

Author(s): Kohji Tashiro, Colby-Ann Donohoe, Marcel Eck, Stefan Mecking, Rufina G. Alamo
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 59, 2026, Page(s) 2393-2411, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6c00020

Polyethylene-Like Blends Amenable to Abiotic Hydrolytic Degradation

Author(s): Marcel Eck; Léa Bernabeu; Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2168-0485
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c07537

Nickel Alkyl Complexes for Polymerization Catalysis via Oxidative Addition–Decarbonylation of Phosphinephenol Esters

Author(s): Lukas Wursthorn, Elliott H. Denton, Felix Ritz, Angelina Graf, Kai Hartmann, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 148, 2026, Page(s) 25342-25346, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6c05927

Keto-Polyethylenes with Controlled Crystallinity and Materials Properties from Catalytic Ethylene-CO-Norbornene Terpolymerization

Author(s): F. de Stefano, M. Baur, C. de Rosa, S. Mecking
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 57, 2024, ISSN 1520-5835
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c02309

Interfacial and Crystalline <i>Gauche</i> OCH ₂ –CH ₂ O Layers in Biodegradable and Recyclable Polyethylene-like Polyesters Detected by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Author(s): Zhenhuan Sun, Taylor Frederick Nelson, Stefan Mecking, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 147, 2025, Page(s) 45924-45935, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c10528

Hydrophilic Catalysts with High Activity and Stability in Aqueous Polymerization to High Molecular Weight Polyethylene

Author(s): Fei Lin, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Issue 61, 2022, Page(s) e202203923, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203923

Polyethylene materials with in-chain ketones from nonalternating catalytic copolymerization

Author(s): Maximilian Baur, Fei Lin, Tobias O. Morgen, Lukas Odenwald, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Science, Issue 374/6567, 2021, Page(s) 604-607, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abi8183

Circular Cross-Linked Polyethylene Enabled by In-Chain Ketones

Author(s): Tobias O. Morgen, Stefan Mecking
Published in: ACS Macro Letters, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1655-1661, ISSN 2161-1653
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.4c00660

Closed-loop recycling of polyethylene-like materials

Author(s): Manuel Häußler, Marcel Eck, Dario Rothauer, Stefan Mecking
Published in: Nature, Issue 590/7846, 2021, Page(s) 423-427, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03149-9