MONOMERS AND POLYMERS DERIVED FROM NATURAL PHENOLS
申请人:CHISHOLM Bret Ja
公开号:US20160023980A1
公开(公告)日:2016-01-28
Monomers, polymers and copolymers are provided that incorporate at least one naturally occurring phenolic compound, such as a plant phenol, as well as methods for producing the monomers and polymers. Plant phenols possessing a reactive group in addition to the phenolic group, such as a double bond, aldehyde, ester, alcohol or carboxylic acid, are particularly useful. Plant phenols can be isolated from a plant material, or chemically or enzymatically synthesized.
reaction that typically occurs in the vinylation of diols. In addition, the thermodynamically preferred transesterification reaction leading to the acetate esters and bis-esters was completely suppressed. DFT calculations revealed an iridium-acetate complex as the active catalytic species and they disclosed the importance of the carbonyl group of vinylacetate for the formation of a six-membered cyclic