Plant oils are an attractive renewable feedstock for polymers due to their long linear methylene sequences. These can provide, for example, crystallinity and corresponding thermal properties or hydrophobicity in the final materials. Routes for the conversion of plant oils to long chain a,w-difunctional monomers are discussed, as well as the properties of corresponding aliphatic polycondensates.These routes are compared with regard to practicability, the utilization of technical grade plant oils that contain multiple unsaturated fatty acids, and product quality.Thermal and other properties of polyesters and polyamides prepared by polycondensation of these monomers with each other and with shorter chain petrochemical or renewable monomers are presented.

Long-chain aliphatic α.[omega]-difunctional compounds and polycondensates from plant oils

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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