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Sathe D, Yoon S, Wang Z, Chen H, Wang J. Deconstruction of Polymers through Olefin Metathesis. Chem Rev 2024; 124:7007-7044. [PMID: 38787934 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2024]
Abstract
The consumption of synthetic polymers has ballooned; so has the amount of post-consumer waste generated. The current polymer economy, however, is largely linear with most of the post-consumer waste being either landfilled or incinerated. The lack of recycling, together with the sizable carbon footprint of the polymer industry, has led to major negative environmental impacts. Over the past few years, chemical recycling technologies have gained significant traction as a possible technological route to tackle these challenges. In this regard, olefin metathesis, with its versatility and ease of operation, has emerged as an attractive tool. Here, we discuss the developments in olefin-metathesis-based chemical recycling technologies, including the development of new materials and the application of olefin metathesis to the recycling of commercial materials. We delve into structure-reactivity relationships in the context of polymerization-depolymerization behavior, how experimental conditions influence deconstruction outcomes, and the reaction pathways underlying these approaches. We also look at the current hurdles in adopting these technologies and relevant future directions for the field.
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Affiliation(s)
- Devavrat Sathe
- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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- School of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio 44325, United States
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Yoon KY, Noh J, Gan Q, Edwards JP, Tuba R, Choi TL, Grubbs RH. Scalable and continuous access to pure cyclic polymers enabled by 'quarantined' heterogeneous catalysts. Nat Chem 2022; 14:1242-1248. [PMID: 36064971 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01034-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Cyclic polymers are topologically interesting and envisioned as a lubricant material. However, scalable synthesis of pure cyclic polymers remains elusive. The most straightforward way is to recover a used catalyst after the synthesis of cyclic polymers and reuse it. Unfortunately, this is demanding because of the catalyst's vulnerability and inseparability from polymers, which reduce the practicality of the process. Here we develop a continuous circular process, where polymerization, polymer separation and catalyst recovery happen in situ, to dispense a pure cyclic polymer after bulk ring-expansion metathesis polymerization of cyclopentene. It is enabled by introducing silica-supported ruthenium catalysts and newly designed glassware. Different depolymerization kinetics of the cyclic polymer from its linear analogue are also discussed. This process minimizes manual labour, maximizes the security of vulnerable catalysts and guarantees the purity of cyclic polymers, thereby showcasing a prototype of a scalable access to cyclic polymers with increased turnovers (≥415,000) of precious catalysts.
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- Ki-Young Yoon
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.,Ashland Specialty Ingredients, Bridgewater, NJ, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. .,Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratory of Chemical Synthesis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Halbach RL, Dupper T, López-Barrón CR, Kang S, Mattler SJ, Luo L, Zabula AV. Synthesis, Structural Studies, and Application of Aluminum Aryloxides for Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization. Organometallics 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Robert L. Halbach
- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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- ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, 5200 Bayway Drive, Baytown, Texas 77520, United States
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Olefin cross-metathesis of polynorbornene with polypentenamer: New norbornene−cyclopentene multiblock copolymers. Eur Polym J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2022.111264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Herndon JW. The chemistry of the carbon-transition metal double and triple bond: Annual survey covering the year 2018. Coord Chem Rev 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2019.213051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Abdo EE, Cho S, Register RA. Single-End-Functionalized Polycyclopentene via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization with Concurrent Chain Transfer. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b01812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Emily E. Abdo
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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Song K, Kim K, Hong D, Kim J, Heo CE, Kim HI, Hong SH. Highly active ruthenium metathesis catalysts enabling ring-opening metathesis polymerization of cyclopentadiene at low temperatures. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3860. [PMID: 31455772 PMCID: PMC6712042 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11806-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2019] [Accepted: 08/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Development of versatile ruthenium olefin-metathesis catalysts with high activity, stability, and selectivity is a continuous challenge. Here we report highly controllable ruthenium catalysts using readily accessible and versatile N-vinylsulfonamides as carbene precursors. Catalyst initiation rates were controlled in a straightforward manner, from latent to fast initiating, through the facile modulation of the N-vinylsulfonamide ligands. Trifluoromethanesulfonamide-based catalysts initiated ultrarapidly even at temperatures as low as -60 °C and continuously propagated rapidly, enabling the enthalpically and entropically less-favored ring-opening metathesis polymerizations of low-strained functionalized cyclopentene derivatives, some of which are not accessible with previous olefin-metathesis catalysts. To our surprise, the developed catalysts facilitated the polymerization of cyclopentadiene (CPD), a feedstock that is easily and commonly obtainable through the steam cracking of naphtha, which has, to the best of our knowledge, not been previously achieved due to its low ring strain and facile dimerization even at low temperatures (below 0 °C).
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- Kitaek Song
- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, 08826, Republic of Korea.
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Li L, Marrou SR, Torkelson JM. Remarkable glass transition breadths up to 120 K exhibited by block-gradient copolymers and by gradient copolymers plasticized by oligomer. POLYMER 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2018.07.058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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