Acrylate sugars, polymers

X. C. Liu and J. S. Dordick, Sugar acrylate-based polymers as chiral molecularly imprintable hydrogels, 1. Polym. Sci., Part A Polym. Chem., 37 (1999) 1665-1671. 

Sixteen solid-phase materials were tested on a laboratory scale and the antho-cyanin and sugar content of collected fractions were determined. Among these, reverse-phase silica gels and macroreticular non-ionic acrylic polymer adsorbents such as Serdolit PAD IV or Amberlite XAD-7 turned out to be most suitable. SPE was used to investigate these materials on an enlarged scale, improving elution gradient and column purification. Amberlite XAD-7 was successfully applied in a middle-scale separation. ... 

A further development [27] is the formation of so-called sugar-acrylate copolymers in which acrylic acid is copolymerised with glucose or other saccharides. Unlike other sequestering agents these polymers are said to be readily biodegradable, this being the main reason for their development. 

The sugar-acrylate polymers [27] are recommended for applications similar to those mentioned above for polycarboxylate polymers and copolymers. 

Levulinic acid is formed by the treatment of six-carbon sugar carbohydrates from starch or lignocellulosics with acids, or by add treatment plus a reductive step of five-carbon sugars derived from hemicellulose. Levulinic add can serve as a building block for the synthesis of many derivatives of interest may be the selective oxidation to succinic and acrylic add. [i-Acetylacrylic add could be used in the production of new acrylate polymers. 

Interest in detergent products derived from renewable resources and with better biodegradability has driven evaluation of oxidized sugars and starches as builders or co-builders in detergents.113 Builders and co-builders complex calcium and magnesium ions in hard water to prevent sealing or deposits due to precipitation of insoluble carbonate salts. In current powder detergents, the builders are usually zeolites used in combination with polycarboxylate polymers derived from synthetic acrylic-maleic acid copolymers.114... 

The triorganotin species have been used as industrial biocides for over 30 years [117, 118]. Examples are triphenyltin hydroxide (structure 5) for fungal diseases on celery, rice, sugar beets, and coffee tricyclohexylstannyl-1,2,4-triazole (structure 6) as an acaricide for apple, pear, and citrus fruit trees bistributyltin oxide (structure 7) as a wood preservative and tributyltin-methylacrylate monomers (structure 8) polymerized with other acrylates to yield a marine antifoulant polymer that prevents the build of up barnacles, algae, and other marine animals on ships. 

Use Plasticizer and coalescing agent for acrylic latexes in floorpolishes, solvent for polymers, insecticides, polyhydroxylic alcohols, sugar, iodine, specialty inks, monomer for nylon-4. 

The vinyl sugars mentioned above were acrylate, acrylamide, styryl, vinylether and alkenyl sugars, and their polymer backbones after polymerization are not biodegradable. 

Liu, X.-C. Dordick, J.S. Sugar acrylate-based pol5mers as chiral molecularly imprint-able hydrogels. J. Polym. Sci. Polym. Chem. 1999, 37, 1665-1671. 

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