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Catalysis, decarbonylation, fatty acid, Polylactide, Polymer
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Toward Enhancing The Synthesis Of Renewable Polymers: Feedstock Conversions And Functionalizable Copolymers, Tedd Casey Wiessner
Toward Enhancing The Synthesis Of Renewable Polymers: Feedstock Conversions And Functionalizable Copolymers, Tedd Casey Wiessner
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This thesis describes research under the rubric of the Center for Sustainable Polymers that is aimed at two separate goals. The goal of the first project (Chapters 1 and 2) was to develop a deeper mechanistic understanding of a method for the synthesis of linear α-olefins, while the second aimed at synthesizing statistical copolymers that incorporate olefin-containing monomers through ring-opening transesterification polymerization and showing that these copolymers could be functionalized. In Chapter 1, published methods for the conversion of fatty acids to linear α-olefins are reviewed to provide context for the mechanistic work we accomplished (Chapter 2). In Chapter 2 …