“…The monomers have been prepared either by multistep synthesis, leading to defined compounds and subsequently a well-defined polymerization processes (Fig. 6,7), (Barros et al, 2004b;Barros and Petrova, 2009;Barros et al, 2007;Barros and Sineriz, 2002;Crucho et al, 2008), or by direct functionalization of unprotected sucrose, leading to mixtures of isomers and therefore to more complex polymers (Barros et al, 2010b). A number of monomers has been synthesized from sucrose during the last decades, as presented in Fig.…”