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Selected Publications of the Kiesewetter Group
  • Spink, S.S.; Kazakov, O.I.; Kiesewetter, E.T.; Kiesewetter M.K., Rate Accelerated Organocatalytic RingOpening Polymerization of L‑Lactide via the Application of a Bis(thiourea) H‑bond Donating Cocatalyst. Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 6127-6131. 
  • Kazakov, O. I.; Datta, P. P.; Isajani, M.; Kiesewetter, E. T.; Kiesewetter, M. K., Cooperative Hydrogenbond Pairing in Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization. Macromolecules, 2014, 47, 7463-7468 
  • Pothupitiya, J.U.; Dharmaratne, N.U.; Jouaneh, T.M.M.; Fastnacht, K.V.; Coderre, D.N.; Kiesewetter, M.K., H-bonding Organocatalysts for the Living, Solvent-free Ring-Opening Polymerization of Lactones: Towards an All-Lactones, All-Conditions Approach. Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 8948–8954. 
  • Dharmaratne, N.U.; Pothupitiya, J.U.; Bannin, T.J.; Kazakov, O.I.; Kiesewetter, M.K., Triclocarban: Commercial Antibacterial and Highly Effective H-bond Donating Catalyst for Ring-Opening Polymerization. ACS Macro Lett. 2017, 6, 421-425. 
  • Fastnacht, K.V.; Spink, S.S.; Dharmaratne, N.U.; Pothupitiya, J.U.; Datta, P.P.; Kiesewetter, E.T.; Kiesewetter, M.K., Bis- and Trisurea H-bond Donors for Ring-opening Polymerization: Unprecedented Activity and Control from an Organocatalyst. ACS Macro Lett. 2016, 5, 982-986. 
  • Datta, P.P.; Kiesewetter, M.K., Controlled Organocatalytic Ring-Opening Polymerization of ε‑Thionocaprolactone. Macromolecules, 2016, 49, 774-780.