Limonene as a renewable unsaturated hydrocarbon solvent for living anionic polymerization of β-myrcene
- 10 May 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Polymer Chemistry
- Vol. 12 (21), 3084-3087
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d1py00570g
Abstract
The acyclic monoterpene β-myrcene is polymerized by anionic polymerization at room temperature using sec-butyllithium as the initiator and the cyclic monoterpene DL-limonene as an unsaturated hydrocarbon solvent. The polymerization is a living process and allows production of polymyrcenes with narrow molar mass distribution (Đ ∼ 1.06) and high content of 1,4 units (∼90%) as well as block copolymers.Keywords
Funding Information
- Universität Potsdam
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