Hydroxy Functional Acrylates: Enzymatic Synthesis and Free Radical Polymerization

• Published in: Macromolecular Symposia
• Main Authors: Popescu, Dragos, Hoogenboom, Richard, Keul, Helmut, Möller, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/masy.201051008; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fmasy.201051008; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/masy.201051008

Abstract Hydroxy functional acrylates were prepared via transacylation of methyl acrylate with 1,2,6‐hexanetriol catalyzed by Candida antarctica lipase B. Under the applied reaction conditions, 70% of the substrate was converted into hydroxy functional acrylates. In a subsequent step, after filtration of the enzyme, the monomer mixture containing methyl acrylate and the new monomers was polymerized via free radical polymerization resulting in a functional copolymer with M n = 14500 g/mol.