ReviewChemical reviews2024
Synthesis and Deconstruction of Polyethylene-type Materials.
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41 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A plant-receptor-inspired cuprous complex for wearable trace-level ethylene gas sensing.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Microstructure of amide-functionalized polyethylenes determined by NMR relaxometry.Chemical science · 2026Article
- Dual-Pathway Strategy for Click-Type Functionalization and Programmable Polymer Deconstruction.Macromolecules · 2026Article
- Mechanically Triggered Chemical Recyclable Polyethylene-Like Materials.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Effect of Middle Diol Repeat Units in Biobased Aliphatic Polyesters on Thermal and Tensile Properties.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Precision Oligomeric Building Blocks toward Chemically Recyclable Polyolefin-like Materials.Precision chemistry · 2026Review
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- Incorporating Carbamate Groups into Polyolefin Elastomers for High Performance and Closed-Loop Recyclability.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Selective, Oxygen-Tunable, and Metal-Free Functionalization of Polyethylene Through Dual-Mode Nitrosation and Carbonylation.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
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Abstract
Polyethylene deconstruction to reusable smaller molecules is hindered by the chemical inertness of its hydrocarbon chains. Pyrolysis and related approaches commonly require high temperatures, are energy-intensive, and yield mixtures of multiple classes of compounds. Selective cleavage reactions under mild conditions (<ca. 200 °C) are key to improve the efficacy of chemical recycling and upcycling approaches. These can be enabled by introduction of low densities of predetermined breaking points in the polyethylene chains during the step-growth or chain-growth synthetic construction of designed-for-recycling polyethylene-type materials. Alternatively, they can be accomplished by postpolymerization functionalization of postconsumer polyethylene waste via dehydrogenation and follow-up reactions or through oxidation to long-chain dicarboxylates. Deconstruction of litter under environmental conditions via the aforementioned break points can alleviate plastics' persistency, as a backstop to closed-loop recycling.
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