A Green Polymerization of Aspartic Acid for the Undergraduate Organic Laboratory

• George D. Bennett ^[1]
  1. [1] Millikin University

     Millikin University

     Township of Decatur, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 82, Nº 9, 2005, pág. 1380
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Based on a technology that won a Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, this experiment involves the thermal polymerization of aspartic acid and subsequent hydrolysis to give sodium poly(aspartate). The procedure is suitable for introducing students to the important topic of polymers and for illustrating several of the principles of green chemistry.