Main description:

This ACS Symposium Series is the product of a symposium held at the 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, CA on March 27-31, 2011. It includes chapters on new biobased building blocks such as the furandicarboxylic acid, polyesters and polyamides from adipic, succinic and sebacic acids with aliphatic diols such as 1,3-propylene glycol, 1,4-butanediol, 1,12-dodecylenediol and isosorbide. The conversion of hydroxymethylfurfural, the
dehydration product of hexose sugars, to succinic acid and 1,4-butanediol to produce poly(butylene succinate) is described in one chapter. Also the synthesis of new polymers from plant-derived olefinic monomers such as tulipalin A and studies of composites from cotton by-products are featured in other
chapters. There is a strong emphasis on biocatalytic synthesis and polymerization within the book. Chapter topics include the synthesis of ?-hydroxyfatty acids and polymers therefrom, an interesting discussion on the structural differences of the products of the biocatalytic and chemical catalytic synthesis of polyesters from oleic diacid and glycerol and the ability to produce polylactic acid (PLA) and PLA-PHA copolyesters within a "microbial cell factory".
Other areas of interest explored in other chapters include recent developments of biobased polymer fibers and oleate-based pressure sensitive adhesives and composites. One chapter describes a large increase in cold-drawn fiber tensile strength by the blending of a small amount of ultrahigh molecular weight (MW) poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) with a much lower MW 3-hydroxybutyrate polymer. The addition of a rubber and inorganic fillers to normally brittle PLA was found to dramatically improve its
ductility. Finally, there are several chapters on seed oil-based polyurethanes, one on fibers from soy proteins and composites from starch.

Contents:

Preface ; 1. Furandicarboxylic Acid (FDCA), A Versatile Building Block for a Very ; Interesting Class of Polyesters ; E. de Jong, M. A. Dam, L. Sipos, and G.-J. M. Gruter ; 2. Biobased Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Derived from Epoxidized and ; Dihydroxylated Oleate with Phosphoric Acid and Its Chemical Pathways ; B. Kollbe Ahn, Stefan Kraft, and X. Susan Sun ; 3. Toughening Modification of Poly(lactic acid) via Melt Blending ; Hongzhi Liu and Jinwen Zhang ; 4. Biobased Polymeric Materials Prepared from Cotton Byproducts ; H. N. Cheng, Michael K. Dowd, and Atanu Biswas ; 5. Processing, Mechanical Properties, and Structure Analysis of Melt-Spun ; Fibers of P(3HB)/UHMW-P(3HB) Identical Blend ; Taizo Kabe, Takeharu Tsuge, Takaaki Hikima, Masaki Takata, Akio Takemura, and ; Tadahisa Iwata ; 6. Biosynthesis of Monomers for Plastics from Renewable Oils ; Wenhua Lu, Jon E. Ness, Wenchun Xie, Xiaoyan Zhang, Fei Liu, Jiali Cai, ; Jeremy Minshull, and Richard A. Gross ; 7. Synthesis of Biomass-Based Monomers from Biomass-Based Furfural for ; Polyesters and Evaluation of Their Biomass Carbon Ratios ; Yuya Tachibana, Takashi Masuda, Masahiro Funabashi, Ken-ichi Kasuya, and ; Masao Kunioka ; 8. Poly(oleic diacid-co-glycerol): Comparison of Polymer Structure Resulting ; from Chemical and Lipase Catalysis ; Yu-Rong Zhang, Yi-Xin Yang, Jia-Li Cai, Wen-Hua Lv, Wen-Chun Xie, ; Yu-Zhong Wang, and Richard A. Gross ; 9. Polymers from Fatty Acids: Poly(?-hydroxyl tetradecanoic acid) Synthesis ; and Physico-Mechanical Studies ; Chen Liu, Fei Liu, Jiali Cai, Wenchun Xie, Timothy E. Long, S. Richard Turner, ; Alan Lyons, and Richard A. Gross ; 10. Long-Chain Polyesters via Chemical Catalytic Conversions of Fatty Acid ; Esters ; Florian Stempfle, Philipp Roesle, and Stefan Mecking ; 11. Advances in the Use of BiOH(R) Polyols in Polyurethanes ; Timothy W. Abraham ; 12. Carbohydrate Hydrogenolysis ; Patrick B. Smith ; 13. Biobased Polymers from Plant-Derived Tulipalin A ; Seema Agarwal, Qiao Jin, and Samarendra Maji ; 14. Biological Lactate-Polymers Synthesized by One-Pot Microbial Factory: ; Enzyme and Metabolic Engineering ; John Masani Nduko, Ken'ichiro Matsumoto, and Seiichi Taguchi ; 15. Synthesis of Amylose-Grafted Polysaccharide Materials by ; Phosphorylase-Catalyzed Enzymatic Polymerization ; Jun-ichi Kadokawa ; 16. Novel Nanocomposites Reinforced with Polysaccharide (Starch) ; Nanocrystals: From Interfacial Ring-Opening Polymerization to ; Melt-Processing Implementation ; J.-M. Raquez, A.-L. Goffin, E. Duquesne, Y. Habibi, A. Dufresne, and Ph. Dubois ; 17. Oleic Acid and Undecylenic Acid as Platform Chemicals for Thermoplastic ; Polyurethanes ; Gerard Lligadas, Juan C. Ronda, Marina Galia, and Virginia Cadiz ; 18. Novel Biomass-Based Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization, and ; Application ; Bart A. J. Noordover, Lidia Jasinska-Walc, Inge van der Meulen, Robbert Duchateau, ; and Cor E. Koning ; 19. Thermoplastic Starch Polymer Blends and Nanocomposites ; C. M. Chaleat, M. Nikolic, R. W. Truss, I. Tan, S. A. McGlashan, and P. J. Halley ; 20. Solution Blowing of Soy Protein Fibers ; S. Sinha-Ray, Y. Zhang, A. L. Yarin, S. C. Davis, and B. Pourdeyhimi ; Editors' Biographies ; Indexes ; Author Index ; Subject Index