Innovative biobased Poly(meth)acrylates
Researchers have described a facile one-pot approach to biobased poly(meth)acrylates.
Shifting from petrochemical feedstocks to renewable resources can address some of the environmental issues associated with petrochemical extraction and make plastics production sustainable. Therefore, there is a growing interest in selective methods for transforming abundant renewable feedstocks into monomers suitable for polymer production.
Copolymers from renewable materials
A recent study describes one-pot catalytic systems, that are active, productive, and selective under mild conditions for the synthesis of copolymers from renewable materials. Each system allows for anhydride formation, alcohol acylation and/or acid esterification, as well as polymerisation of the formed (meth)acrylates, providing direct access to a new library of unique poly(meth)acrylates.
The study has been published in Angewandte Chemie – International Edition, June 2021.
