From plant oils to polymers

摘要

An efficient catalytic approach turns plant oils into precursors for polymers and detergents with very little waste,say chemists.Michael Meier and Anastasiya Rybak at the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/ Wilhelms in Emden,Germany,used fatty acid derivatives,which can be obtained from natural feedstocks such as castor oil,to make diesters that are useful monomers for making polyesters and polyamides.