Miscellaneous Monomers

This final section is not intended to cover exhaustively the numerous scattered mentions of the use of different natural monomers, or monomers prepared from natural compounds, in polymerization reactions, mostly because this odd catalog would not reflect the actual potential of these often isolated investigations. The choice was instead placed on a couple of monomers which have received serious attention and produced interesting materials. 

Succinic acid, readily available from the fermentation of glucose, is a very prolific molecule that can be usefully exploited in the synthesis of a large spectrum of interesting compounds, including, of course, monomeric structures [78]. Its potential in macromolecular chemistry is awaiting to be intensively exploited. 

Despite the condensed format of this overview, I hope that it manages to convince readers that the interest in monomers from renewable resources is not a passing whim of some polymer chemists led astray by fashionable trends, but, instead, a very sound strategy that should help to shape the future of polymer science and technology. Although obviously not all these studies will reach viable practical realizations in terms of novel macromolecular materials, it is indispensable to build a rich database in preparation for the progressive dwindling of fossil 

2 Gandini, A. (2008) Macromolecules, 41, 9491 Coates, G.W., and Hillmyer, M.A. (2009) A Virtual Issue of Macromolecules Polymers from Renewable Resources , Macromolecules, 42 (21), 7987-7989, doi 10.1021/ ma902107 Various, (2008) Polym. Rev., 48 (1). A special issue devoted to polymers from renewable resources Eichhorn, S.J., and Gandini, A. (2010) Materials from Renewable Resources, a Special Issue of MRS Bull., 35,187-225. 

Composites from Renewable Resources, Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

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Radiation Grafting of Miscellaneous Monomers onto Cellulose... 

Photopolymerizable monomers and oligomers can be classified under four main groups including radical monomers and oligomers, unsaturated polyester resins, thiol-ene systems, and cationic monomers. In addition to these systems, particular photopolymerizable systems are also available such as expanding monomers, liquid crystalline monomers, and some other miscellaneous monomers. 

Random copolymerization of pyrrole with miscellaneous monomers... 

A.4. Alkyl Vinyl Ether-Maleic Anhydride Copolymer Patents A. 5. Vinyl Acetate-Maleic Anhydride Copolymer Patents A.6. Patents on Maleic Anhydride Copolymers with Miscellaneous Monomers... 

Table A.6. Patents on Maleic Anhydride Copolymers with Miscellaneous Monomers... 

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