US 9,546,122 B2Granted

Monomers and polymers derived from natural phenols

AssigneeNDSU Research Foundation

InventorsBret Ja Chisholm, Samim Alam, Satyabrata Samanta

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Monomers, polymers and copolymers are provided that incorporate at least one naturally occurring phenolic compound, such as a plant phenol.

Dependent claims

A monovinyl ether monomer having the structure:

where R1, R2, and R3 are each independently H or alkyl;
R4 is either —O—R10— or absent;
R10 is divalent organic group;
and —OR is a substituted phenolate group comprising a deprotonated alcohol selected from the group consisting of p-coumaryl alcohol, coniferyl alcohol, sinapyl alcohol, 4-vinylguaiacol, 4-propenylsyringol, vanillin, vanillic acid, acetoguaiacone, coniferaldehyde and sinapaldehyde.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Copolymers of compounds having one or more unsaturated aliphatic radicals, each having only one carbon-to-carbon double bond, and at least one…:…
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The aromatic ring being a non-condensed ring: containing more than one ether bond
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Having an ether-oxygen atom bound to a carbon atom of a six-membered aromatic ring: having unsaturation outside the six-membered aromatic rings
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Preparation of carboxylic acid esters: by reacting carboxylic acids or derivatives thereof with a carbon-to-oxygen ether bond, e.g. acetal,…

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