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Plant oils: The perfect renewable resource for polymer science?!

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In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the present situation with special attention to the use of olefin metathesis and thiol-ene chemistry as synthetic methods and as polymerization techniques.
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This article is published in European Polymer Journal.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 551 citations till now.

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Effect of nature and extent of functional group modification on properties of thermosets from methacrylated epoxidized sucrose soyate

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of modification of epoxidized sucrose soyate using a combination of methacrylate and inert esters (acetate propionate, butyrate) on the properties of the resins as well as the thermosets was evaluated.
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Copolymers Based on Epoxidized Soy Bean Oil and Diglycidyl Ether of Bisphenol A: Relation Between Morphology and Fracture Behavior

TL;DR: In this paper, the fracture behavior of copolymers based on anhydride-cured epoxy systems with different contents of ESO as a replacement for the synthetic resin was investigated.
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Fatty acid-based methacrylate polymers as viscosity modifiers for mineral oils

TL;DR: In this article, partially biobased methacrylate polymers with various fatty acid side chains were used as efficient polymeric viscosity modifiers for mineral paraffinic oil (MPO).
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Bio-based plant oil polymers from ROMP of norbornene modified with triglyceride from crude red palm olein

TL;DR: In this article, a novel monomer norbornene palm olein (NPO) was isolated from reaction of 5-norbornene-2-carboxylic acid with triglycerides from red palm Olein, with one NBE unit per NPO.
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Real time monitoring by time-domain NMR of ring opening metathesis copolymerization of norbornene-based red palm olein monomer with norbornene

TL;DR: In this article, changes in molecular mobility throughout the metathesis copolymerization of a norbornene functionalized with a palm olein monomer and a pure norbornenes were monitored in situ by time-domain 1H NMR, using a ruthenium catalyst.
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Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry

TL;DR: The radical-mediated thiol-ene reaction has all the desirable features of a click reaction, being highly efficient, simple to execute with no side products and proceeding rapidly to high yield.
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Recent developments in the chemistry of halogen-free flame retardant polymers

TL;DR: An overview of recent developments of the chemistry of halogen-free flame retardant polymers is presented in this article, along with their thermal stabilities and flame-retardant properties.
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Thiol-ene “click” reactions and recent applications in polymer and materials synthesis

TL;DR: In this paper, a review highlights examples of recent applications of both the radical-mediated and base/nucleophile-initiated thiol-ene reactions in polymer and materials synthesis.
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Plant oil renewable resources as green alternatives in polymer science

TL;DR: The synthesis of monomers as well as polymers from plant fats and oils has already found some industrial application and recent developments in this field offer promising new opportunities, as is shown within this contribution.
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Click Chemistry beyond Metal-Catalyzed Cycloaddition

TL;DR: This Minireview discusses the success and applicability of new, in particular metal-free, click reactions, which expand the opportunities for synthesizing small organic compounds as well as tailor-made macromolecules and bioconjugates.
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