Synthetic polymers are increasingly made from renewable compounds to overcome the issues of depletion and CO2 emissions associated with fossil fuels as conventional starting materials for polymer production. In this work, we investigated synthetic strategies to polymerize eugenol or monomers derived from eugenol using polycondensation and thiol-ene click reactions. The structures of the polymers were verified by 1H NMR and 13C NMR and complete peak assignments were made. Thermal properties were determined by DSC and TGA, and molecular weight properties were obtained by GPC. The effects on the polymer properties of spacer units with different lengths (C4 versus C8) between the eugenol units are also discussed.

Syntheses of eugenol based copolymers applying thiol-ene reactions

2019 Fall National Meeting

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