Researchers at Universiteit van Amsterdam made an important step towards the production of fully biobased, rigid polyesters. The process replaces petroleum in the production of very strong and durable biobased plastics from building blocks that are already commercially available. In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group led by Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter presented a simple, yet innovative, synthesis strategy to overcome the inherently low reactivity of biobased secondary diols and…
