1 The Emergence of Renewable and Sustainable Polymers .......... 1
Patrick B. Smith and Gregory F. Payne
2 Copolyester Synthesis Using Glycerol from Biodiesel
Production .................................................. 11
Massoud J. Miri, Keelyn E. Nori, Rebecca M. Andrew, and
Changfeng Ge
3 Bioplastics, Biocomposites, and Biocoatings from Natural
Oils ........................................................ 37
Rafael L. Quirino and Richard C. Larock
4 Biofabrication: Enlisting the Unique Capabilities of
Biological Polymers for Hierarchical Construction ........... 61
Benjamin D. Liba, India V. Aranha, Eunkyoung Kim, and
Gregory F. Payne
5 Polyurethanes from Hybrid Vegetable Oil/Petrochemical
Polyester Polyols ........................................... 73
Mihail Ionescu, Ye Ji, William M. Shirley, and Zoran
S. Petrović
6 Revitalizing Chemurgy: Chemicals from Agricultural
Resources ................................................... 95
Patrick B. Smith
7 Cellulosic-Derived Levulinic Ketal Esters: A New Building
Block ...................................................... 111
Cora Leibig, Brian Mullen, Tara Mullen, Lee Rieth, and
Vivek Badarinarayana
8 Biopolymers, Processing, and Biodйgradation ................ 117
Bo Shi, Vasily Topolkaraev, and James Wang
9 Flame Retardants Based on Tartaric Acid: A Renewable
By-Product of the Wine Industry ............................ 133
B.A. Howell, К.E. Carter, and H. Dangalle
10 Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization of L-Lactide
Triggered by Supramolecular Organocatalytic Systems ........ 153
Joji Kadota, Sylvain Koeller, Dražen Pavlović,
Jean-Pierre Desvergne, Brigitte Bibal, Frédéric Peruch,
and Alain Deffieux
11 Zinc Complexes with Mono- and Polydentate Behaving
Guanidine Ligands and Their Application in Lactide
Polymerization ............................................. 169
Janna Börner, Inиs dos Santos Vieira, Ulrich Flörke,
Artjom Döring, Dirk Ruckling, and Sonja Herres-Pawlis
Indexes
Author Index .................................................. 203
Subject Index ................................................. 205
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