Sugar polymers, chemoenzymatic synthesis

Polymers from Sugars Chemoenzymatic Synthesis and Polymerization of Vinylethylglucoside... 

Synthetic polymers containing sugar branches have attracted considerable interest in recent years. These are typically produced via chemoenzymatic routes where the first step is the enzyme-mediated synthesis of the sugar ester monomer followed by chemical polymerization (Scheme 2). Several workers have developed sugar ester-abased polymers containing vinyl, styrene, acrylamide, etc., functionalities. A discussion of the synthesis methods of these compounds are not in the scope of the current work and interested readers are referred to some recent literature by Patil et al. [64], Kitagawa and Tokiwa [65], and Raku and Tokiwa [66]. 

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