Chloroform-poly , diffusion

This method was first reported by Vanderhoff [82] for the preparation of artificial latexes. The polymer and drug are dissolved or dispersed in a volatile water-immiscible organic solvent, such as dichloromethane, chloroform, or ethyl acetate. This is emulsified in an aqueous continuous phase containing a surfactant, such as poly(vinylalcohol), to form nanodroplets. The organic solvent diffuses out of the nanodroplets into the aqueous phase and evaporates at the air/water interface, as illustrated in Figure 6. The solvent is removed under reduced pressure. The nanodroplets solidify and can be separated, washed, and dried to form a free-flowing powder. 

Proton spin-temperature equilibration between the hard- and soft-segment-rich domains of the polyurethane elastomer on the order of 10-100 ms might be considered fast relative to a macroscopically phase-separated blend [26] or copolymer, but slow relative to a strongly interacting mixture [25]. This is reasonable for a microphase-separated material whose solid state morphology has been the subject of considerable theoretical and experimental research. Under fortuitous circumstances, intimate (near-neighbor) contact between dissimilar molecules in a mixture can be studied via direct measurement of proton spin diffusion in a two-dimensional application of the 1H-CRAM PS experiment (Combined Rotation And Multiple Pulse Spectroscopy). Belfiore et al. [17,25,31] have detected intermolecular dipolar communication in a hydrogen-bonded cocrystallized solid solution of poly(ethylene oxide) and resorcinol on the f00-/xs time scale, whereas Ernst and coworkers [26] report the absence of proton spin diffusion on the 100-ms time scale for an immiscible blend of polystyrene and poly(vinyl methyl ether), cast from chloroform. 

Poly(tetramethyIene diselenide) in chloroform solution at 60 °C or in the presence of diffused sunlight degrades to form 1,2-diselenane [218] and when heated stron y it forms selenolane [214] ... 

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