“…Sugars can also be transformed into monomers for chain-growth polymerization. For example, d -xylose-derived cyclic monomers having an oxetane ring were reported to yield high-molecular-weight (high-MW) polymers by ring-opening (co)polymerization. − An isosorbide-derived cyclic ether was also polymerized by the ring-opening mechanism. , In addition, anhydrosugars (Scheme B), which are synthesized by dehydration reactions of sugars, undergo cationic ring-opening polymerization (ROP) via single ring-opening of the bicyclic acetal structures − in a manner similar to cationic ROPs of not-sugar-derived monocyclic and bicyclic acetals. ,, Recent examples of anhydrosugar polymerization include the design of new monomers and the living cationic polymerization of anhydrosugars. − …”