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Tandem synthesis of alternating polyesters from renewable resources

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  • Carine Robert

    (Chimie ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7223)

  • Frédéric de Montigny

    (Chimie ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7223)

  • Christophe M. Thomas

    (Chimie ParisTech, UMR CNRS 7223)

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The vast majority of commodity materials are obtained from petrochemical feedstocks. These resources will plausibly be depleted within the next 100 years, and the peak in global oil production is estimated to occur within the next few decades. In this regard, biomass represents an abundant carbon-neutral renewable resource for the production of polymers. Here we report a new strategy, based on tandem catalysis, to obtain renewable materials. Commercially available complexes are found to be efficient catalysts for alternating polyesters from the cyclization of dicarboxylic acids followed by alternating copolymerization of the resulting anhydrides with epoxides. This operationally simple method is an attractive strategy for the production of new biodegradable polyesters.

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  • Carine Robert & Frédéric de Montigny & Christophe M. Thomas, 2011. "Tandem synthesis of alternating polyesters from renewable resources," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 2(1), pages 1-6, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:2:y:2011:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1596
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1596
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