High molecular weight bile acid and ricinoleic acid-based copolyesters via entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerisation

Julien E Gautrot; X X Zhu

doi:10.1039/b719021b

High molecular weight bile acid and ricinoleic acid-based copolyesters via entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerisation

Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Apr 14:(14):1674-6. doi: 10.1039/b719021b. Epub 2008 Feb 6.

Authors

Julien E Gautrot¹, X X Zhu

Affiliation

¹ Département de Chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7. jeg45@cam.ac.uk

PMID: 18368161
DOI: 10.1039/b719021b

Abstract

High molecular weight copolyesters based on bile acid and ricinoleic acid were synthesised via entropy-driven ring-opening metathesis polymerisations and were found to display tunable mechanical properties and heterogeneous degradation behaviours.

MeSH terms

Bile Acids and Salts / chemistry*
Elasticity
Entropy*
Molecular Structure
Molecular Weight
Polyesters / chemical synthesis
Polyesters / chemistry*
Ricinoleic Acids / chemistry*

Substances

Bile Acids and Salts
Polyesters
Ricinoleic Acids
ricinoleic acid