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SUBMITTER: Robert C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3247812 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robert Carine C de Montigny Frédéric F Thomas Christophe M CM
Nature communications 20111213
The vast majority of commodity materials are obtained from petrochemical feedstocks. These resources will plausibly be depleted within the next 100 years, and the peak in global oil production is estimated to occur within the next few decades. In this regard, biomass represents an abundant carbon-neutral renewable resource for the production of polymers. Here we report a new strategy, based on tandem catalysis, to obtain renewable materials. Commercially available complexes are found to be effic ...[more]