Reversible Click Chemistry at the Service of Macromolecular Materials. 2. Thermoreversible Polymers Based on the Diels-Alder Reaction of an A-B Furan/Maleimide Monomer

摘要

The dwindling of fossil resources, together with their unpredictable price fluctuations, raise serious questions about the medium-term pursuit of their exploitation, whether as a source of energy and/or as purveyors of organic commodities and materials, with the additional concern of the ecological impact related to their exploitation. Hence, the ensuing surge of initiatives devoted not only to the search for alternative sources of energy providers, but also to the context of polymers from renewable resources, namely the vegetable biomass. 1,2 Among these, polymers from furan monomers constitute a unique class of materials based on vegetable renewable resources, whose structures can simulate virtually all their current fossil-derived counterparts.2,3