Surfactant-free peroxidase-mediated enzymatic polymerization of a biorenewable butyrolactone monomer via a green approach : synthesis of sustainable biobased latexes Universiteit Gent
A green surfactant-free one-pot horseradish peroxidase-mediated enzymatic polymerization is successfully applied to produce a sustainable and thermally stable biobased high average molar mass poly(alpha-methylene-gamma-butyrolactone) (PMBL) at ambient conditions in water for the first time. The initiation step required only very low concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and 2,4-pentanedione water-soluble initiator to generate the keto-enoxy ...