Polymers from Renewable Resources. Biopolyesters and Biocatalysis

Content: Biopolyesters and Biocatalysis Introduction / Carmen Scholz, Richard A. Gross -- Poly([beta]-hydroxyalkanoates) -- Interesting Carbon Sources for Biotechnological Production of Biodegradable Polyesters: The Use of Rape Seed Oil Methyl Ester (Biodiesel) / A. Steinbuchel, Ingo Vo[beta], V. Gorenflo -- Biosynthesis and Properties of Medium-Chain-Length Polyhydroxyalkanoates from Pseudomonas resinovorans / Richard D. Ashby, Daniel K. Y. Solaiman, Thomas A. Foglia -- The Structural Organization of Polyhydroxyalkanoate Inclusion Bodies / L. J. R. Foster -- Microbial Synthesis, Physical Properties, and Biodegradability of Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Poly[(R)-3-hydroxybutyrate] / Tadahisa Iwata, Satoshi Kusaka, Yoshiharu Doi -- Polyhydroxyalkanoate Production by Recombinant Escherichia coli: New Genes and New Strains / Sang Yup Lee, Jong-il Choi -- Biodegradable Polyesters: Synthesis and Characterization -- Enzymatic Synthesis -- Introduction to Enzyme Technology in Polymer Science / David L. Kaplan, Richard A. Gross -- Lipase-Catalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerization of [omega]-Pentadecalactone: Kinetic and Mechanistic Investigations / Lori A. Henderson, Richard A. Gross -- Enzymatic Polymerization of Natural Phenol Derivatives and Enzymatic Synthesis of Polyesters from Vinyl Esters / Hiroshi Uyama, Ryohei Ikeda, Shigeru Yaguchi, Shiro Kobayashi -- Chemical Synthesis -- High-Molecular-Weight [L]-Polylactides Containing Pendant Functional Groups / Xianhai Chen, Youqing Shen, Richard A. Gross