Terpenes as Renewable Resources for Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry

With the goal to develop innovative science and technology to significantly reduce our dependence on fossil fuel, the use of the renewable resources via green procedures are discussed. Implementation of efficient approaches, such as thiol-ene reactions and organocatalysis provides the potential to achieve sustainability. Thus, a considerable amount of novel monomers and polymers are prepared from terpenes or vanillin in combination with fatty acid derivatives.