“…The tradeoff between polymer flammability and flame retardant toxicity presents a dilemma that can be addressed, ideally, with new syntheses that avoid halogen altogether [5]. Recently, we described the first use of 4,4 0 -bishydroxydeoxybenzoin (BHDB) as an A 2 monomer in polycondensation chemistry, and through calorimetric methods identified exceedingly low heat release properties of these BHDB-containing polymers [6,7].…”