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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 11.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Catal. 2023 Sep 1;13(18):12163–12172. doi: 10.1021/acscatal.3c02165

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1.

Proposed Reaction Coordinate Diagram of Polymerizationa

aLowering [NVC] or lowering temperature increases the relative rate of conformer equilibration compared to propagation, which drives selective meso enchainment and leads to isotactic polymers.