Issue 12, 2020
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Green Chemistry

Organocatalysis for versatile polymer degradation†

Paul McKeown, ORCID logo *ab   Muhammed Kamran,ab   Matthew G. Davidson,ab   Matthew D. Jones, ORCID logo *ab   Luis A. Román-Ramírez ORCID logo c  and  Joseph Woodc  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
E-mail: pm482@bath.ac.uk, mj205@bath.ac.uk

b Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK

c School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Abstract

The use of a simple, cheap and effective organocatalyst, tetramethylammonium methyl carbonate, has been exploited for the transesterification of a range of commercial polymer samples. PLA, PCL, PC and PET have been successfully broken down into useful products, with the repolymerisation of DMT to PET demonstrated, highlighting a truly circular economy approach.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D0GC01252A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Apr 2020
Accepted
27 May 2020
First published
27 May 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Green Chem., 2020,22, 3721-3726

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Organocatalysis for versatile polymer degradation

P. McKeown, M. Kamran, M. G. Davidson, M. D. Jones, L. A. Román-Ramírez and J. Wood, Green Chem., 2020, 22, 3721 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01252A

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