title: Recent progress in sustainable polymers obtained from cyclic terpenes: synthesis, properties, and application potential.
abstract: The functionalization and polymerization of biobased monocyclic terpenes and their derivatives for the synthesis of sustainable polymers is described, especially in view of the synthetic routes and properties of the obtained macromolecular architectures. Comparison of these procedures and the obtained materials with "classical" oil-based approaches, and also with alternative biobased routes, gives interesting insights into the potential of these small terpene building-block structures for modern polymer science and technology.
authors.affiliation: WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85747 Garching bei München (Germany). malte.winnacker@makro.ch.tum.de.
authors.forename: Malte
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Winnacker
authors.affiliation: WACKER-Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry, Technische Universität München, Lichtenbergstraße 4, 85747 Garching bei München (Germany).
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rieger
mesh_terms: D003500:Cyclization; D055772:Green Chemistry Technology; D058105:Polymerization; D011108:Polymers / Q000138:chemical synthesis*; D013729:Terpenes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D013729:Terpenes
keywords: advanced materials; polymers; renewable resources; sustainable chemistry; terpenoids