Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry to Accelerate Polymerization Catalysis: A Toolkit for Miniaturized and Automated Kinetics Measurements

McGuire TM, Ning D, Williams CK

Understanding catalysts, and improving their future performances, requires quantification of their kinetic and thermodynamic parameters, including measurement of rate constants (kobs), transition state enthalpy barriers (ΔH‡) and polymerization enthalpy and entropy (ΔHp, ΔSp). This work presents miniaturized and automated methods, conducted using common differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) instruments using