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Original Articles

From Vegetable Oils to Polyurethanes: Synthetic Routes to Polyols and Main Industrial Products

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Pages 38-79 | Received 20 Sep 2011, Accepted 02 Nov 2011, Published online: 09 Jan 2012

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