Organic catalysts have become powerful alternative to metal-based salts and complexes in ring-opening polymerization (ROP). In addition to providing easy-to-use and low cost commercially available species that can mediate such polymerizations, organocatalysts have presented opportunities to polymerize monomers that are hard to polymerize in a controlled manner by other routes. Amongst these discoveries, the ability to control the polymerization of a wider range of monomers derived from sustainable resources has resulted. Our work in this area has focused on the development of organocatalytic species and the polymerization of monomers derived from renewable sources. The application of these polymers in elastomeric materials and 3D-printed scaffolds presents new application opportunities.

Selective organic catalysis in the synthesis of materials from sustainable resources by ring-opening polymerization

249th National Meeting (2015)

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