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Enzymatic oxidative polymerization of phenol has been performed in an aqueous organic solvent using horseradish peroxidase as catalyst to produce a new family of phenol resin. The resulting polymer was partly soluble in DMF and DMSO and the fraction soluble in DMF has molecular weight of 3.5 × 104. From IR and 1H NMR analyses, the polymer structure was found to be composed of a mixture of phenylene and oxyphenylene units.
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Uyama et al. (1994) studied this question.
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