ADMET‐Polymerization of Dienes based on Sustainable Chemicals

Summary: Eugenol and isoeugenol were used as natural based starting materials to prepare unsaturated polyethers and polycarbonates. The polymerization was achieved in a two step procedure exploiting the orthogonal phenol and ene functionalities. Thus diene terminated ethers and organic carbonates were obtained from eugenol and isoeugenol, and subjected to ADMET polymerisation using Grubbs 2 nd generation catalyst 1 . The obtained unsaturated polymers have molecular weights ranging from 2.700 to 32.000 g/mol. Molecular weight build up was partly restricted by the low solubility of the products.