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Carbon Dioxide-Based Polymers

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Polymeric materials made from carbon dioxide

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Carbon dioxide-based polymers are here defined as “a polymer of which carbon dioxide comprises the main chain.” The carbon dioxide incorporated into a polymer main chain forms carbonate/carbamate/urea (Fig. 1, left) or ester (Fig. 1, right) structures.

Carbon Dioxide-Based Polymers, Fig. 1
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Possible structures of incorporated carbon dioxide and their retro-syntheses

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

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Nakano, R., Nozaki, K. (2015). Carbon Dioxide-Based Polymers. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_330

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