Living/controlled anionic polymerization and copolymerization of epichlorohydrin with tetraoctylammonium bromide-Triisobutylaluminum initiating systems

Autor: Stéphane Doutaz, Matthieu Gervais, Virginie Rejsek, Amélie Labbé, Alain Deffieux, Stéphane Carlotti
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de Chimie des polymères organiques (LCPO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux (ENSCPB)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Team 1 LCPO : Polymerization Catalyses & Engineering, Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques (LCPO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique (ENSCBP)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Polytechnique de Bordeaux-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, de Biologie et de Physique (ENSCBP)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Elsevier, 2008, 41 (19), pp.7058-7062. ⟨10.1021/ma801422c⟩
ISSN: 0141-8130
DOI: 10.1021/ma801422c⟩
Popis: International audience; A weakly nucleophilic initiating system obtained by the combination of triisobutylaluminum and tetraoctylammonium bromide has been successfully used to achieve the controlled polymerization of epichlorohydrin (ECH) in hydrocarbon at temperatures ranging from -30 degrees C to room temperature. Besides the formation of a 1:1 aluminate complex of low nucleophilicity between the aluminum derivative and the tetraalkylammonium salt, the strategy consists of the formation of a strongly activating complex between the Lewis acid and the epoxide monomer. To that aim trialkylaluminum is added in slight excess with respect to the tetraalkylammonium salt ([i-BU3Al]/[NOct(4)Br] > 1). In these conditions the reactivity of ECH toward nucleophiles is strongly enhanced and the ring opening polymerization proceeds in the presence of weak nucleophiles leading to nonreacted chloromethyl function of the epichlorohydrin. This contrasts with conventional anionic polymerization, which requires much stronger nucleophiles for the ring opening. Fast and controlled polymerization of ECH up to high molar masses and the synthesis of random and block copolymers with propylene oxide were readily achieved.
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