Front Cover: Towards Sustainable Production of Polybutylene Adipate Terephthalate: Non-Biological Catalytic Syntheses of Biomass-Derived Constituents (ChemSusChem 23/2024)

Abstract

The Front Cover illustrates the sustainable production of a biodegradable polymer, polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT), from precursors derived from renewable biomass resources. In their Review, J. Lee, K.-Y. A. Lin and co-workers evaluate the synthesis routes, particularly those involving various nonbiological heterogeneous catalytic reactions for the production of essential monomers of PBAT such as terephthalic acid, dimethyl terephthalate, adipic acid, and butane-1,4-diol.