Polymers without petrochemicals: sustainable routes to conventional monomers

G Hayes, M Laurel, D MacKinnon, T Zhao… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Access to a wide range of plastic materials has been rationalized by the increased demand
from growing populations and the development of high-throughput production systems …

Advances in the use of CO 2 as a renewable feedstock for the synthesis of polymers

B Grignard, S Gennen, C Jérôme, AW Kleij… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon dioxide offers an accessible, cheap and renewable carbon feedstock for synthesis.
Current interest in the area of carbon dioxide valorisation aims at new, emerging …

Recent progress in CO2-based polyurethanes and polyureas

X Ou, Y Niu, Q Liu, L Li, F Wei, Y Cui, Y Zhou… - Progress in Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
As an abundant, renewable, and inexpensive carbon feedstock, CO 2 can be converted into
valuable products, creating substantial environmental and economic benefits …

Superstrong adhesive of isocyanate-free polyurea with a branched structure

H Yang, G Du, Z Li, X Ran, X Zhou, T Li… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Using, urea, one of the cheapest chemicals and convenient deamination polycondensation
(solvent-free, catalyst-free, one-pot, one-step) provides an industrially relevant and …

Opportunities for organocatalysis in polymer synthesis via step-growth methods

A Bossion, KV Heifferon, L Meabe, N Zivic… - Progress in Polymer …, 2019 - Elsevier
Organocatalysis has emerged as an invaluable tool for polymer synthesis and has already
demonstrated versatility for replacing organometallic catalysts in many polymerization …

Strong yet tough cross-linked oligosiloxane elastomer with impact-resistant and antifouling properties

M Wang, Q Xie, J Pan, C Ma, G Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyurea with strong hydrogen bond interactions has excellent mechanical strength,
toughness, and strain-rate-dependent behavior. However, the too fast polymerization and …

Unexpected synthesis of segmented poly (hydroxyurea–urethane) s from dicyclic carbonates and diamines by organocatalysis

A Bossion, RH Aguirresarobe, L Irusta, D Taton… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A complete study of the effect of different organocatalysts on the step-growth polyaddition of
a five-membered dicyclic carbonate, namely diglycerol dicarbonate, with a poly (ethylene …

Polyureas versatile polymers for new academic and technological applications

JS Santana, ES Cardoso, ER Triboni, MJ Politi - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Polyureas (PURs) are a competitive polymer to their analogs, polyurethanes (PUs).
Whereas PUs' main functional group is carbamate (urethane), PURs contain urea. In this …

Polyhydroxyurethane covalent adaptable networks: looking for suitable catalysts

C Bakkali-Hassani, D Berne, P Bron, L Irusta… - Polymer …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Various bases (DMAP, DBU, TBD, t-BuOK), acid (p-TSA), thiourea (TU) and organometallic
Lewis acid (DBTDL) were investigated as potential catalysts for the preparation of …

Highly regio-and stereoselective synthesis of cyclic carbonates from biomass-derived polyols via organocatalytic cascade reaction

H Zhou, H Zhang, S Mu, WZ Zhang, WM Ren… - Green Chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The cascade reaction of CO2, vicinal diols, and propargylic alcohol, was firstly achieved by
dual Lewis base (LB) organocatalytic systems involving LB–CO2 adducts and commercially …