Carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide as resources for functional polymers

✍ Scribed by Bungo Ochiai; Takeshi Endo

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 562 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0079-6700
• DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2005.01.005

✦ Synopsis

This review describes polymer synthesis utilizing carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide as useful C1 resources. Chain and step copolymerizations are recounted with polymerizations of cyclic carbonates, especially five-membered ones, as monomers derived or potentially obtainable from carbon dioxide. Homopolymerization, copolymerizations, and application as a precursor for reversible chain transfer agents for RAFT polymerization are described for carbon disulfide based polymer synthesis. As polymerizations of monomers from carbon disulfide, ring-opening polymerizations of dithiocarbonates and thiourethanes are described.