 Plant-based compounds bearing a terminal double bond and hydroxyl and ether groups can be used efficiently as comonomers for the copolymerization with olefins including styrene. These copolymerizations are catalyzed by a palladium arylphosphine sulfonate complex, which is less oxophillic than other single-site catalysts. In particular with eugenol as comonomer, copolymers with very high comonomer contents and even polyeugenol can be obtained. The synthesis, properties and applications of these renewable polymers will be discussed.

Styrene/eugenol copolymers and polyeugenol obtained by coordination polymerization

246th National Meeting (2013)

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