Séminaire ICPEES donné par le Professeur Michael A.R. Meier portant sur "Catalytic and other efficient approaches to renewable monomers and polymers"

Le mardi 17 Mars aura lieu à 10h40, Amphi de l’ECPM (Campus CNRS - Cronenbourg),  un séminaire ICPEES présenté par le Professeur Michael A. R. Meier Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC), Karlsruhe, Allemagne

Le séminaire portera sur : "Catalytic and other efficient approaches to renewable monomers and polymers"

Abstract : 

In ages of depleting fossil reserves and an increasing emission of greenhouse gases, it is obvious that the utilization of renewable feedstocks is one necessary step towards a sustainable development of our future. Especially plant oils bear a large potential for the substitution of currently used petrochemicals, since a variety of value added chemical intermediates can be derived from these resources in a straightforward fashion taking full advantage of nature’s synthetic potential. Here, new approaches for the synthesis of monomers as well as polymers from plant oils as renewable resources will be discussed.[1] 

For instance, we could show that different chain length ?,?-diester monomers can be obtained from fatty acid esters via olefin cross-metathesis (CM) with methyl acrylate taking advantage of natures "synthetic pool" of fatty acids with different chain lengths and positions of the double bonds.[2] Moreover, thiol-ene click chemistry offers a complementary approach for the introduction of different functional groups to fatty acids in a straightforward and efficient manner, as demonstrated for the functionalization of the castor oil derived methyl 10-undecenoate with a variety of thiols.[3] Furthermore, a sustainable access to nitrogen containing monomers for the sustainable synthesis of renewable polyamides and polyurethanes will be discussed.[4, 5] The thus obtained renewable platform chemicals are valuable starting materials for a large variety of polymers.[6-10] 

The focus of the presentation will be divided between the mentioned efficient (catalytic) routes to renewable step-growth monomers and the synthesis and properties of selected thereof derived polymers. Moreover, novel approaches towards the functionalization of cellulose, the most abundant renewable resource on our planet, will be introduced.[11,12] In summary, we will thus demonstrate the versatility of plant-oil derived platform chemicals and other renewable resources for the synthesis of a large variety of renewable monomers and polymers.

References:

[1]          M. A. R. Meier, J. O. Metzger, U. S. Schubert, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 1788.
[2]          A. Rybak, M. A .R. Meier, Green Chem. 2007, 9, 1356.
[3]          O. Türünç, M. A. R. Meier, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2010, 31, 1822.
[4]          O. Kreye, S. Wald, M. A. R. Meier, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 81.
[5]          M. Winkler, M. A. R. Meier, Green Chem. 2014, 16, 1784.
[6]          P. A. Fokou, M. A. R. Meier, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 1664.
[7]          L. Montero de Espinosa, M. A. R. Meier, Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 1908.
[8]          O. Türünç, M. A. R. Meier, Green Chem. 2011, 13, 314.
[9]          M. Unverferth, O. Kreye, A. Prohammer, M. A. R. Meier, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2013, 46, 1569.
[19]        O. Kreye, D. Kugele, L. Faust, M. A. R. Meier, Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2014, 35, 317.
[10]        A. Schenzel, A. Hufendiek, C. Barner-Kowollik, M. A. R. Meier, Green Chem. 2014, 16, 3266.
[11]        A. Hufendiek, C. Barner-Kowollik, M. A. R. Meier, Polym. Chem. 2015, DOI: 10.1039/C5PY00063G

 
Bio: 

Professeur Michael A. R. Meier is full professor for Applied Chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC), Karlsruhe. 

He is Editor for the European Polymer Journal, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology. He is also a member of editorial boards of Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Journal of Renewable Materials, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics and Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 

He is also chairman of the Oleochemistry division of the European Federation for the Science and Technology of Lipids.

To know more: 

http://www.meier-michael.com/CV_MARMeier.pdf 

http://www.meier-michael.com