Sustainable, efficient approaches to renewable platform chemicals and polymers

Environmental concerns have led to an increased demand for renewable materials in recent years. Efficient approaches, like metal-free organocatalysis, olefin metathesis and thiol-ene coupling, offer the potential of increased sustainability and comparatively lower production costs (besides olefin metathesis). Thus, the following work is performed with the attempt to meet both, making use of oils as renewable feedstock, and using sustainable, efficient approaches as valuable synthetic tools.