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Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of malonate polyesters and their use as metal chelating materials.


ABSTRACT: Following the environmental problems caused by non-degradable plastics there is a need to synthesise greener and more sustainable polymers. In this work we describe, for the first time, the facile enzyme-catalysed synthesis of linear polyesters using dimethyl malonate as the diester. These polymers, containing a different aliphatic diol component (C4, C6 or C8), were synthesised in solventless conditions using immobilized Candida antarctica lipase B as the biocatalyst. The potential of enzymes for catalysing this reaction is compared with the unsuccessful antimony- and titanium-catalysed synthesis (T > 150 °C). The application of the synthesized polymers as effective metal chelators in biphasic, green solvent systems was also described, together with the characterisation of the synthesised materials.

SUBMITTER: Byrne FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293702 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of malonate polyesters and their use as metal chelating materials.

Byrne Fergal P FP   Assemat Jamie M Z JMZ   Stanford Amy E AE   Farmer Thomas J TJ   Comerford James W JW   Pellis Alessandro A  

Green chemistry : an international journal and green chemistry resource : GC 20210629 14


Following the environmental problems caused by non-degradable plastics there is a need to synthesise greener and more sustainable polymers. In this work we describe, for the first time, the facile enzyme-catalysed synthesis of linear polyesters using dimethyl malonate as the diester. These polymers, containing a different aliphatic diol component (C<sub>4</sub>, C<sub>6</sub> or C<sub>8</sub>), were synthesised in solventless conditions using immobilized <i>Candida antarctica</i> lipase B as the  ...[more]

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