Amphiphilic copolymers are an important class of polymeric material used widely in diverse applications including drug delivery and biomaterials more broadly. It is especially desirable to construct amphiphilic copolymers from sustainable building blocks. We describe, herein, a new class of amphiphilic graft copolymers synthesized from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and terpene-containing methyl esters. Organocatalyzed transesterification was used to link the hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains via degradable bonds. The efficiency of the guanidine-catalyzed transesterification reaction was studied along with the physical properties of the resultant graft copolymers.

Synthesis and characterization of amphiphilic graft copolymers prepared by organocatalyzed transesterification of terpene-containing reagents

2019 Fall National Meeting

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