The replacement of current petroleum-based plastics with sustainable alternatives is a
crucial but formidable challenge for the modern society. Catalysis presents an enabling tool …

Oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin remain an important renewable feedstock for the
chemical industry. Their industrial use has increased during the last 10 years from 31 to 51 …

In the past two decades, synthetic biodegradable and biobased polyesters have emerged as
a sustainable alternative to traditional petroleum-derived polymers for diverse range of …

Other than their established short-chain congeners, polycondensates based on long-chain
difunctional monomers are often dominated by the long methylene sequences of the repeat …

Organocatalysis has become a very powerful tool for precision macromolecular chemistry,
as judged by the number of articles published in this field in the past decade. A variety of …

Ten years have passed since the conception of what was termed Lewis pair polymerization
(LPP) that employs Lewis acid and base in pairs to not only activate monomers but also …

Organic catalysis in ring-opening polymerization (ROP) has become a powerful alternative
to more traditional metal-based catalysts. The field has developed to a point at which there …

In the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters and carbonates, hydrogen-bonding
organocatalysis offers an interesting alternative to metal-based and enzymatic catalysis to …

Polyesters carrying polar main-chain ester linkages exhibit distinct material properties for
diverse applications and thus play an important role in today's plastics economy. It is …

This review highlights recent advances in the synthesis of carbon dioxide (CO 2)-based
copolymers with both linear (di-, tri-, and multi-block, etc.) and non-linear (star-block and …