Fatty acid-derived branched polymer architectures

Plant oils awakened special interest as renewable feedstock due to the inherent, annual availability for monomer and polymer synthesis. The present thesis deals with the synthesis of monomeric and polymeric branched structures based on fatty acid derivatives. First, polyols were synthesized via a modified Schenck-Ene reaction and a dimer fatty acid was synthesized via thiol-ene addition. Star-shaped polymers with four and six arms were prepared via the core-first approach based on castor oil.