Renewable Resources for New Polyolefin Architectures

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Renewable Resources for New Polyolefin
Architectures
Robert T. Mathers, Department of Chemistry, Penn
State University, New Kensington
Benefits of renewable chain transfer agents -
readily available by-product of the citrus
industry - less volatile and less toxic than
petroleum based solvents - control polymer
molecular weight - comonomer for some catalysts
d-limonene
Metallocene polymerizations in d-limonene

• d-Limonene is incorporated into the polymer due
  to chain transfer or copolymerization