Renewable resource-based poly(dodecyloate) by carbonylation polymerization

  • Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 Sep 28;(36):5400-2. doi: 10.1039/b912294j.
Dorothee Quinzler  1 ,  Stefan Mecking
Affiliations
  • 1. Dept. of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.
PMID: 19724798 DOI: 10.1039/b912294j
Abstract

Cobalt-catalyzed step growth polymerization of undec-10-en-1-ol and CO affords aliphatic polyesters (Mn > 10(4) g mol(-1)) based entirely on renewable resources.

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