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SUBMITTER: Byrne FP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8293702 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]