Polylactide (PLA) is the leading bioderived polymer produced commercially by the metal-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization of lactide. Control over tacticity to produce stereoblock PLA, from rac-lactide improves thermal properties but is an outstanding challenge. Here, phosphasalen indium catalysts feature high rates (30±3 m-1  min-1 , THF, 298 K), high control, low loadings (0.2 mol %), and ...

First-principles calculations for clean and In-rich GaN 112 2 surfaces indicate that indium will, for the same indium chemical potential, incorporate in higher concentrations on the 112 2 surface than on the 101 0 surface. Because In atoms are larger than Ga atoms, there is a strain-induced repulsive interaction between incorporated In atoms on the surface. This interaction is weaker on the 112...

Recent investigations have shown the oxone-mediated oxidative methyl esterification of benzaldehyde derivatives using methanol. The reactions were accelerated in the presence of indium(III) triflate, a trivalent indium reagent, in many cases. Based on this method of methyl esterification of benzaldehyde derivatives, we further explored an application to heterocyclic aldehydes. The reactions wer...

Indium(III) halides catalyze efficiently the intramolecular hydroarylation (IMHA) of aryl propargyl ethers. The reaction proceeds regioselectively with terminal and internal alkynes bearing electron-rich and electron-deficient substituents in the benzenes and alkynes affording only the 6-endo dig cyclization product. Additionally, a sequential indium-catalyzed IMHA and palladium-catalyzed Sonog...

Potassium indium bis-[hydrogen arsenate(V)], KIn(HAsO4)2, rubidium indium bis-[hydrogen arsenate(V)], RbIn(HAsO4)2, and caesium indium bis-[hydrogen arsenate(V)], CsIn(HAsO4)2, were grown under mild hydro-thermal conditions (T = 493 K, 7-8 d). KIn(HAsO4)2 adopts the KSc(HAsO4)2 structure type (space group C2/c), while RbIn(HAsO4)2 and CsIn(HAsO4)2 crystallize in the space group R-3c and are the...

Askin tumor is a rare disease which had previously been reported as being thallium-201 and gallium-67 avid. Varying data regarding 18F- fluorodeoxyglucose metabolism has been described with Ewing family of soft tissue tumors. In this case, we present a patient found to have an Askin tumor of the left chest wall which demonstrated indium-111 pentetreotide and technetium-99m MIBI avidity. The les...