This diol is produced as a mixture of cis- and trans-isomers, depending on the relative stereochemistry of the hydroxyl groups.

Unlike BPA, there is no current evidence of carcinogenic or toxic effects from CBDO-based consumer products.

CBDO has potential advantages relative to BPA as a building block for production of polyesters.

Polyesters prepared from CBDO are rigid materials, but the combination of CBDO with flexible diols results in materials with high impact resistance, low color, thermal stability, good photooxidative stability and transparency.

CBDO’s cis isomer crystallizes as two conformers with an average dihedral angle of 17.5° in the solid state.

[7] The current economic method for the production of polyesters is direct esterification of dicarboxylic acids with diols.