Ketone-substituted Polymers

Attachment to a solid support via a secondary amide linkage allows ortholithiations to be carried out in the sohd phase. After a reaction with an aldehyde or ketone, refluxing in toluene returns the amino-substituted polymer 41 (Scheme 21). ... 

There are many electrophiles which not only terminate living polymer chains but also produce end-group substitution. For example, macromolecules with hydroxyl, carboxyl, thiol, or chlorine termini can be prepared by reacting living polymers with such compounds as epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, carbon dioxide, anhydrides, cyclic sulfides, disulfides, or chlorine (15-23). However, primary and secondary amino-substituted polymers are not available by terminations with 1° or 2° amines because living polymers react with such functionalities (1.). Yet, tert-amines can be introduced to chain ends by use of -N-N-di-methylamino-benzaldehyde as the terminating agent (24). 

For example, polymers having hydroxyl end groups can be prepared by reaction of polymer lithium with epoxides, aldehydes, and ketones III-113). Carboxylated polymers result when living polymers are treated with carbon dioxide (///) or anhydrides (114). When sulfur (115, 116), cyclic sulfides (117), or disulfides (118) are added to lithium macromolecules, thiol-substituted polymers are produced. Chlorine-terminus polymers have reportedly been prepared from polymer lithium and chlorine (1/9). Although lithium polymers react with primary and secondary amines to produce unsubstituted polymers (120), tertiary amines can be introduced by use of p-(dimethylamino)benzaldehyde (121). 

In poly(methylphenylphosphazene), [Ph(Me)P=N] 58, both the phenyl and methyl substituents are potential sites for formation of derivatives [65]. Deprotonation of ca. half of the methyl substituents on this polymer was carried out in THF at — 78 °C using n-BuLi. On treatment of the intermediate polymer anion with ferrocenyl ketones and subsequent quenching with a mild proton source, phos-phazenes 59 containing the OH functional group were prepared. The amount of substitution, determined by NMR and elemental analysis, was found to be 45 and 36%, respectively, for polymers 59a and 59b (Scheme 10-27). For these substituted polymers was 187000 and 154000, respectively, and no degradation of the parent polymer occurred. 

The synthesis of alltyl-bridged poly(p-phenylene)s is based on typical poly(p-phenylene) chemistry, followed by a second reaction in which the rigidifying bridge is created. Scherf et al. [314, 315,704,705] used Suzuki coupling to create a ketone-substituted poly(p-phenylene). In a next step, the ketone functions in this polymer were reduced and, finally, the ladder polymer was obtained by Friedel-Crafts alkylation (Fig. 43). 

Acetylene-substituted Si-N-P compounds, synthesis, 236-237 Activated aluminas, description, 165 Aerogels, definition, 127 Aggregation of fractals, 104,106 Alcohol-substituted polymers from aldehydes and ketones, deprotonation-substitution reactions, 249-250 Alkenylborazine copolymers, quantitative reactivity studies of copolymerization reactions, 394... 

Oxidation of LLDPE starts at temperatures above 150°C. This reaction produces hydroxyl and carboxyl groups in polymer molecules as well as low molecular weight compounds such as water, aldehydes, ketones, and alcohols. Oxidation reactions can occur during LLDPE pelletization and processing to protect molten resins from oxygen attack during these operations, antioxidants (radical inhibitors) must be used. These antioxidants (qv) are added to LLDPE resins in concentrations of 0.1—0.5 wt %, and maybe naphthyl amines or phenylenediamines, substituted phenols, quinones, and alkyl phosphites (4), although inhibitors based on hindered phenols are preferred. 

Based on this variety of properties, amorphous polybutadiene has found a niche in the mbber industry. Moreover, it appears that the anionicaHy prepared polymer is the only polymer that can be functionalized by polar groups. The functionalization is done by using aromatic substituted aldehydes and ketones or esters. Functionalization has been reported to dramatically improve polymer-filler interaction and reduce tread hysteresis (70—73). 

Although the sulfone activated biphenyl and the ketone activated naphthalene moiety for the displacement polymerization have been reported by Attwood et al. [11], these were rediscovered by Cummings et al. [12] and Hergenrother et al. [13], respectively, for the synthesis of poly(aryl ethers). Recently, Singh and Hay [14] reported polymers containing 0-dibenzoyl benzene (1,2,3) moiety by reaction between bis(O-fluorobenzoyl) benzene or substituted benzene with bisphenates of alkali metal salt in DMAC as follows ... 

The general approaches for the synthesis of poly(arylene ether)s include electrophilic aromatic substitution, nucleophilic aromatic substitution, and metal-catalyzed coupling reactions. Poly(arylene ether sulfone)s and poly(arylene ether ketone)s have quite similar structures and properties, and the synthesis approaches are quite similar in many respects. However, most of the poly(arylene ether sul-fone)s are amorphous while some of the poly(arylene ether)s are semicrystalline, which requires different reaction conditions and approaches to the synthesis of these two polymer families in many cases. In the following sections, the methods for the synthesis of these two families will be reviewed. 

The nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction for the synthesis of poly(arylene ether ketone)s is similar to that of polysulfone, involving aromatic dihalides and aromatic diphenolates. Since carbonyl is a weaker electron-withdrawing group titan sulfonyl, in most cases, difluorides need to be used to afford high-molecular-weight polymers. Typically potassium carbonate is used as a base to avoid the... 

Oxidation is the first step for producing molecules with a very wide range of functional groups because oxygenated compounds are precursors to many other products. For example, alcohols may be converted to ethers, esters, alkenes, and, via nucleophilic substitution, to halogenated or amine products. Ketones and aldehydes may be used in condensation reactions to form new C-C double bonds, epoxides may be ring opened to form diols and polymers, and, finally, carboxylic acids are routinely converted to esters, amides, acid chlorides and acid anhydrides. Oxidation reactions are some of the largest scale industrial processes in synthetic chemistry, and the production of alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, epoxides and carboxylic acids is performed on a mammoth scale. For example, world production of ethylene oxide is estimated at 58 million tonnes, 2 million tonnes of adipic acid are made, mainly as a precursor in the synthesis of nylons, and 8 million tonnes of terephthalic acid are produced each year, mainly for the production of polyethylene terephthalate) [1]. 

Miller et al. [87,88] have described the synthesis of hyperbranched aromatic poly(ether-ketone)s based on monomers containing one phenolic group and two fluorides which were activated towards nucleophilic substitution by neighboring groups. The molecular weight and polydispersity of the formed po-ly(ether-ketone)s could be controlled by reaction conditions such as monomer concentration and temperature. The formed polymers had high solubility in common solvents such as THF. 

Polyamino acids are easy to prepare by nucleophUe-initiated polymerisation of amino acid JV-carboxyanhydrides. Polymers such as poly-(L)-leucine act as robust catalysts for the epoxi-dation of a wide range of electron-poor alkenes, such as y-substituted a,Ji-unsaturated ketones. The optically active epoxides so formed may be transformed into heterocyclic compounds, polyhydroxylated materials and biologically active compounds such as dUtiazem and taxol side chain. 

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