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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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Back to the Future with Biorefineries: Bottom‐Up and Top‐Down Approaches toward Polymers and Monomers

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored both bottom-up and top-down approaches for biomass valorization based on the main natural polymers and monomers that can be extracted or isolated from biomass.
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Ruthenium–nickel heterobimetallic complex as a bifunctional catalyst for ROMP of norbornene and ethylene polymerization

TL;DR: In this article, the catalytic activity of polyNBE synthesized via ROMP using mono-Ru and Ru-Ni as pre-catalysts in the presence of ethyl diazoacetate (EDA) was evaluated at different [EDA]/[Ru] ratios, time periods (5-60 min) and temperatures (25 and 50 °C).

Design of novel well-defined organorhenium heterogeneous catalyst for unsaturated fatty acid derivatives self-metathesis

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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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