Acrylates and polyacrylates have been produced massively due to their interesting applications like Plexiglas.

The already‐reported, low‐yielding, and non‐sustainable Et3N‐mediated homocoupling of levoglucosenone (LGO) into the corresponding LGO‐CyreneTM diketone has been revisited and greened‐up. The use of methanol as both a renewable solvent and catalyst and K2CO3 as a safe inorganic base improved the reaction significantly with regards to yield, purification, and green aspects. LGO‐CyreneTM was then subjected to a one‐pot, H2O2‐mediated Baeyer–Villiger oxidation/rearrangement followed by an acidic hydrolysis to produce a new sterically hindered bicyclic monomer, 2H‐HBO‐HBO. This diol was further polymerized in bulk with diacyl chlorides to access new promising renewable polyesters that exhibit glass transition temperatures (Tg) from −1 to 81 °C and a good thermostability with a temperature at which 50 % of the mass is lost (Td50 %) of 349–406 °C.

A chemo-enzymatic pathway involving a Candida antarctica type B lipase was developed to produce (S)-γ-hydroxymethyl-α,β-butenolide methacrylate (HBO-m) and (S)-γhydroxymethyl-γ-butyrolactone methacrylate (2H-HBO-m) from (S)-γ-hydroxymethyl-γbutyrolactone (HBO), a biobased molecule obtained from cellulose-derived levoglucosenone. The acrylated monomer was then copolymerized through a free radical process with methacrylamide and methylene-γ-valerolactone, a green intermediate. Finally, methylene-tetrahydropyranyl (S)-γ-hydroxymethyl-γ-butyrolactone (M-THP-2H-HBO), synthesized via α-methylenation of 2H-HBO, was copolymerized with methyl methacrylate to access copolyacrylates exhibiting high glass transition temperatures.