The biocatalytic synthesis of fluorinated polyesters from activated diesters and fluorinated diols has been investigated. The effects of time, continuous enzyme addition, enzyme concentration, and diol chain length were studied to determine the factors that would limit chain extension, such as enzyme inactivation, enzyme specificity, the equilibrium position for the reaction, hydrolytic side re...

This review deals with recent organo-catalyzed/initiated developments of co-polymerization cyclic anhydrides and epoxides to access polyesters.

Ethyl levulinate is readily ketalized with biobased pentaerythritol to form a spirocyclic diester monomer low GHG emissions produce series of fully aliphatic processable polyesters.

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a unique class of polyesters especially due to their chemical diversity imparted by side-chain substituent that provides handle tune properties, such as their...

Branched and crosslinked degradable polyesters based on lactic acid, lactide and εcaprolactone were prepared by utilizing different polymerization methods. Chain linking of hydroxyl telechelic lactic acid oligomers with 1,6-hexamethylene diisocyanate (HMDI) as a chain extender, yielded lactic acid based poly(ester-urethanes). When an excess of HMDI was used, polymers with broader molecular weig...