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- Title
From Glucose to Polymers: A Continuous Chemoenzymatic Process.
- Authors
Maiti, Sampa; Manna, Saikat; Banahene, Nicholas; Pham, Lucynda; Liang, Zhijie; Wang, Jun; Xu, Yi; Bettinger, Reuben; Zientko, John; Esser‐Kahn, Aaron P.; Du, Wenjun
- Abstract
Efforts to synthesize degradable polymers from renewable resources are deterred by technical and economic challenges; especially, the conversion of natural building blocks into polymerizable monomers is inefficient, requiring multistep synthesis and chromatographic purification. Herein we report a chemoenzymatic process to address these challenges. An enzymatic reaction system was designed that allows for regioselective functional group transformation, efficiently converting glucose into a polymerizable monomer in quantitative yield, thus removing the need for chromatographic purification. With this key success, we further designed a continuous, three‐step process, which enabled the synthesis of a sugar polymer, sugar poly(orthoester), directly from glucose in high yield (73 % from glucose). This work may provide a proof‐of‐concept in developing technically and economically viable approaches to address the many issues associated with current petroleum‐based polymers.
- Subjects
GLUCOSE; CONTINUOUS processing; POLYMERS; TRANSFORMATION groups; RENEWABLE natural resources; ESTERS
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 43, p19105
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202006468