Yes! My original goal was to make the synthesis of the polymer as industrially relevant as possible. The catalyst I use is actually used in large scale industrial polymerization and highly reusable. The components to make the polymer renewable comes from the monomers being derived from fatty acids, a naturally occurring, low cost, carbon-chain with an alkene and carboxylic acid. The use of both of these catalysts and monomers were in hopes of making it more economically viable for industries.

Yes! My original goal was to make the synthesis of the polymer as industrially relevant as possible. The catalyst I use is actually used in large scale industrial polymerization and highly reusable. The components to make the polymer renewable comes from the monomers being derived from fatty acids, a naturally occurring, low cost, carbon-chain with an alkene and carboxylic acid. The use of both of these catalysts and monomers were in hopes of making it more economically viable for industries.

Hey An, great question. After ending my two polymerization reactions that ran for 144 hours, I took 2D HSQC and COSY data to get more extensive information on what I formed. HSQC shows the correlations between carbon and proton signals, giving me the ability to see distinct CH, CH2 and CH3 signals. COSY shows carbon-carbon relations and amongst other things allowed me to see any signals that did not correlate with a carbon such as an alcohol group! A lot more information can be found within 2D spectra than in typical proton and carbon NMR!

Hey An, great question. After ending my two polymerization reactions that ran for 144 hours, I took 2D HSQC and COSY data to get more extensive information on what I formed. HSQC shows the correlations between carbon and proton signals, giving me the ability to see distinct CH, CH2 and CH3 signals. COSY shows carbon-carbon relations and amongst other things allowed me to see any signals that did not correlate with a carbon such as an alcohol group! A lot more information can be found within 2D spectra than in typical proton and carbon NMR!