Electrochemical reductive polymerization of divanillin in aqueous sodium hydroxide using a lead cathode gives polyvanillin in 91% yield. The product was characterized by elemental analysis, UV-Vis, FT-IR, 1H, 13C NMR, TGA-DTGA, and GPC.
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Amarasekara et al. (2012) studied this question.