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Marriage of Furans and Vegetable Oils through Click Chemistry for the Preparation of Macromolecular Materials: A Succinct Review
Talita M. Lacerda1,2,*, Alessandro Gandini1,2
1
São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo, 13566–590, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
2
Institute of Chemistry of São Carlos, University of São Paulo, 13560–970, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Journal of Renewable Materials 2014, 2(1), 2-12. https://doi.org/10.7569/JRM.2013.634127
Received 27 November 2013; Accepted 25 December 2013;
Abstract
The inevitable future scarcity of fossil resources, coupled with sustainability considerations, have stimulated
the use of renewable resources for material synthesis, and highly effi cient polymerization methods that meet
the requirements of green chemistry have drawn attention to fatty acid-based polymers. Additionally, the
polymerization of furan monomers and the exploitation of some of the chemical peculiarities of the furan
heterocycle have generated a wide diversity of macromolecular materials. A novel approach is reviewed
here, calling upon the combined use of both vegetable oils and their derivatives together with furans, as a
promising technique to obtain new materials from two renewable resources. This succinct review provides an
overview of the present strategies to produce linear and crosslinked thermally reversible polyadducts through
Diels-Alder and other click reactions.
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Lacerda, T. M., Gandini, A. (2014). Marriage of Furans and Vegetable Oils through Click Chemistry for the Preparation of Macromolecular Materials: A Succinct Review.
Journal of Renewable Materials, 2(1), 2–12.