A self-crosslinking monomer, α-pinene methacrylate: understanding and exploiting hydrogen abstraction

Abstract

Crosslinking is a valuable route to creating new polymeric materials and normally involves introduction of a cross linker or some form of secondary processing. Here we report the discovery and...

Oxidation of Monoterpenes to Form Diols and Triols: A Versatile Toolbox for Polymer Synthesis

“…Synthetic methods have been developed, which, over the past 20 years, have seen terpenes undergo facile and robust (as well as bespoke) chemical modifications, to arrive at a wealth of monomer compounds. [20][21][22][23][24][25] Primarily, this has been achieved via the oxidation of the alkene moieties, which has been particularly successful. To give only a small handful of examples: the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation has been employed by the Hillmyer group to arrive at a number of terpene-based lactones, derived from carvone and menthone, these were used to produce polyesters by ring-opening polymerization (ROP).…”