Chemistry of Bio-Based Furan Polymers and Its Derivatives: From Synthesis to Application

Call for Papers

Furan and its derivatives are ubiquitous in nature in a wide variety of structures and can be found in modest amounts within specific vegetable and animal species. The interest in these compounds is mostly relevant to phytochemists and synthetic product practitioners. The chemistry associated with the furan heterocycle has been the subject of extensive studies over the last century and is still a very active field of research, due to its important repercussions in areas such as synthons, pharmaceuticals and other fine chemicals, liquid crystals, and polymer science and technology.

Due to the increasing interest in a sustainable society, researchers are now focusing on the synthesis of renewable polymers with properties akin to those derived from fossil fuels. In light of this, the synthesis of bio-based polymers, especially furan-based polymers, is highly desired due to their unique applications as an important building block for the synthesis of many important pharmaceutical products. In addition, among the classes of heteroaromatic compounds, the aromatic furan system is a familiar motif in many natural products. Thus there is a need to encourage and promote research-based furan cycle synthesis and applications.

This special issue aims to collect research and review articles that focus on the chemistry of bio-based furan cycles, its syntheses, reactivity and applications via enzymatic, and homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis, either experimentally or computationally. This special issue also aims to collect studies related to polymers prepared from furan monomers and its derivatives and review articles which describe the current state of the art of furan cycle chemistry.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

Polymerisation of furan compounds for pharmaceutical applications

Catalytic hydrolysis of cellulose into furans in ionic liquid system

Catalytic hydrogenation of furan polymer

Free radical, cationic, and anionic polymerization of furan monomers compounds

Application of furan polymers

Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijps/cbbfc/.

Submission Deadline Friday, 31 May 2019

Publication Date October 2019

Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.

Lead Guest Editor

Prince Nana Amaniampong, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Guest Editors

Ayman Karam, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Quang Thang Trinh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Nana Yaw Asiedu, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana