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Caprolactone (ε-CL) is a monomer used in the production of highly
specialised polymers. Ring-opening polymerization, for example, gives
polycaprolactone. Another polymer is polyglecaprone, used as suture
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material in surgery. ε-Caprolactone is produced industrially through
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material in surgery. ε-caprolactone is produced industrially through
several methods, primarily via the Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of
cyclohexanone using peracetic acid or catalytic systems with oxygen.
Alternative methods include the biocatalytic conversion of cyclohexanol
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