Y. Hiraguri, and Y. Tokiwa

 Institute for Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tuskuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan

Keywords: Radical ring-opening polymerization, Cyclic ketene acetal, Ether type polyhydroxyalkanoate

We tried radical polymerization of cyclic ketene acetal in order to synthesize a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate. 2-Methylene-1,3,6-trioxocane (MTC) was synthesized and polymerized via ring-opening in the presence of radical initiator to produce poly(ester-ether) (PMTC) as a novel polyhydroxyalkanoate as shown in Figure 1. The obtained PMTC was found to be biodegradable as measured by total organic carbon (TOC) and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD).

论文来源：International Symposium on Biological Polyesters ,Auguest 22-27, 2004