Aliphatic polyesters are a class of technologically important biodegradable and/or biocompatible polymers and have realized wide applications in biological medicine
temporary implants for tissue engineering
and packaging. Ring-opening polymerization (ROP) has proven to be a powerful methodology to prepare large-scale polyesters with different structures and properties. However
up to date
the monomers suitable for ROP are only restricted to the cyclic esters or lactones with a relatively high strain energy
which greatly limits the development and application of this methodology. Biomass-derived
γ
-butyrolactone (
γ
-BL)
commercially available at a low price
would be a desirable monomer for ROP
but it is commonly referred as "non-polymerizable" in textbooks and the literature due to low strain energy of its five-membered ring. In 2016
Hong and Chen
et al
. established the first efficient ROP of
γ
-BL under mild conditions by controlling thermodynamics and kinetic conditions
which also provided a new approach for recyclable polymers. This breakthrough work attracted the attention of the scientific researchers in a short time
and a series of new catalysts have been developed for the ROP of
γ
-BL and its derivatives. In this context
this review article systematically summarizes the progress of the emerging area in the past three years by focusing on the discussion of the relationship between the catalyst structure and polymerization behavior
the structure-dependent polymer properties
as well as the recyclability of the resultant polymers. The currently unmet challenges in this field
and thus the suggested corresponding future research directions
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