ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2023
Electron-Poor Butenolides: The Missing Link between Acrylates and Maleic Anhydride in Radical Polymerization.
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- Slow Release of Bioactive Alcohols From Butenolide Polymers and Coatings.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Maleic Anhydride and Its Derivatives: A Brief Review of Reactivity and Properties in Radical (Co)Polymerizations.Macromolecular rapid communications · 2025Review
- Electrosynthesis of dimeric butenolides by C-C-homocoupling in the oxidation of 2,4-diarylfurans under aqueous conditions.iScience · 2024Article
- Process Intensification of the Continuous Synthesis of Bio-Derived Monomers for Sustainable Coatings Using a Taylor Vortex Flow Reactor.Organic process research & development · 2024Article
- Photochemical reactions of biomass derived platform chemicals.Frontiers in chemistry · 2024Review
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Abstract
Butenolides are a class of 5-membered lactones that hold great potential as bio-based monomers to replace oil-derived acrylates, of which they are cyclic analogues. Despite this structural resemblance, the reactivity of the unsaturated ester moiety of electron-poor butenolides leans toward that of maleic anhydride, another essential monomer that does not homopolymerize but copolymerizes in a highly alternating fashion with polarized electron-rich comonomers. By studying the reactivity of 5-methoxy and 5-acyloxy butenolides through a combination of kinetics and density functional theory (DFT) experiments, we explain why electron-poor butenolides constitute a missing link between acrylates and maleic anhydride in radical polymerization.
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