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Pinenes: Abundant and Renewable Building Blocks for a Variety of Sustainable Polymers
Author(s) -
Winnacker Malte
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201804009
Subject(s) - polymer , renewable energy , cationic polymerization , variety (cybernetics) , polymerization , biomass (ecology) , renewable resource , materials science , biochemical engineering , polymer science , nanotechnology , chemistry , organic chemistry , computer science , polymer chemistry , engineering , ecology , artificial intelligence , electrical engineering , biology
Pinenes, a group of monoterpenes containing a double bond, are very suitable renewable building blocks for a variety of sustainable polymers and materials. Their abundance from mainly non‐edible parts of plants as well as the feasibility to isolate them render these molecules unique amongst the variety of biomass that is utilizable for novel materials. Accordingly, their use for the synthesis of biobased polymers has been investigated intensively, and strong progress has been made with this especially within the past 2–3 years. Direct cationic or radical polymerization via the double bonds as well as polymerization upon their further functionalization can afford a variety of sustainable polymers suitable for many applications, which is summarized in this Minireview.