“…Thus, by analogy, CLO could be considered to act as a classical activator of the anionic polymerization of CLA, such as g-butyrolactone [6]; Eqs. However, as was already suggested by Goodman and Vachon [3] and confirmed by us [5], CLO, due to its enormous polymerizing activity, is converted into the polyester as soon as it is dissolved in CLA (at 90 8C) during the preparation of the polymerization feed; Eq.…”