Abstract
Turpentine from pine trees is a renewable source of materials used as feedstock by the chemical industry. The paper presents some ways to use turpentine in the polymer chemistry for preparation of polyterpenes, adhesives, copolymers based on the main components of turpentine, a- and b- pinene respectively, as well as polymeric networks obtained by chemical reactions between turpentine components and a vinyl ester resin. Keywords: turpentine, pinene, polyterpene, copolymerization