Polymeric synthetic route

An FTIR comparison between C18 and C30 sorbents prepared by both surface-and solution-polymerized synthetic routes over a range of temperatures was recently described [119]. Little difference in conformational order was observed for C30 sorbents prepared by both surface and solution-polymerized synthetic routes, as indicated by kink/gfg, double- and end-gauche conformations. Differences in conformational... 

Glycopolymers hearing a-gal epitopes were constructed through a well-known polymeric synthetic route. The method utilized epitope 48 in an attempt to copolymerize with maimose monomer precursor 45 and acrylamide in an established ter-polymerization method (Fig. 22) [153]. Polymerization was initiated hy ammonium persulfate and Ar,Ar,Ar, Ar -tetramethylethylenediamine in aqueous solution. The final polymer was obtained as a white fluffy material after separation by Bio-Gel P-2 permeation column and freeze-drying (76% yield). Proton NMR spectroscopy in D2O verihed the incorporation of all three monomers in the final glycopolymer, 49. 

With the avadabihty of polymerization catalysts, extensive efforts were devoted to developing economical processes for manufacture of isoprene. Several synthetic routes have been commercialized. With natural mbber as an alternative, the ultimate value of the polymer was more or less dictated by that market. The first commercial use of isoprene in the United States started in 1940. It was used as a minor comonomer with isobutylene for the preparation of butyl mbber. Polyisoprene was commercialized extensively in the 1960s (6). In the 1990s isoprene is used almost exclusively as a monomer for polymerization (see ELASTOLffiRS,SYNTHETic-POLYisoPRENE). 

Alternative synthetic routes to poly(arylene sulfide)s have been pubHshed (79—82). The general theme explored is the oxidative polymerization of diphenyl disulfide and its substituted analogues by using molecular oxygen as the oxidant, often catalyzed by a variety of reagents ... 

In connection with studies on the ring-opening polymerization of cyclic acetals, we have undertaken investigations on the polymerization of bicyclic acetals, bicyclic oxalactone, and bicyclic oxalactam, which yield polysaccharide analogs, macrocyclic oligoesters, and a hydrophilic polyamide, respectively, some of which can be expected to be useful as novel speciality polymers. The monomers employed in the studies were prepared via synthetic routes presented in Scheme 1, starting from 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran-2-carbaldehyde (acrolein dimer) I. 

The synthetic route represents a classical ladder polymer synthesis a suitably substituted, open-chain precursor polymer is cyclized to a band structure in a polymer-analogous fashion. The first step here, formation of the polymeric, open-chain precursor structure, is AA-type coupling of a 2,5-dibromo-1,4-dibenzoyl-benzene derivative, by a Yamamoto-type aryl-aryl coupling. The reagent employed for dehalogenation, the nickel(0)/l,5-cyclooctadiene complex (Ni(COD)2), was used in stoichiometric amounts with co-reagents (2,2 -bipyridine and 1,5-cyclooctadiene), in dimethylacetamide or dimethylformamide as solvent. 

Figure 21. Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) synthetic route to tetrafunctional initiators of a star polymer with adamantyl (adamantane core). Taken from Ref. [91] with permission.

This effect has also been observed in polyphosphazenes containing alkyl- or phenyl-carborane as pendent groups.12 A typical synthetic route to poly(phenyl-carboranyl-di-trifluoroethoxy-phosphazene) having pendent phenyl-carborane groups is shown in scheme 4. A substantial improvement in the thermal stability of the polymer was observed. This is attributed to a retardation of the ring-chain de-polymerization mechanism due to steric hindrance effects of the carborane units, inhibiting helical coil formation. 

Fig. 7 Synthesis of heterobifunctional PEG. (a) Nagasaki et al. developed a method for the polymerization of EO using an initiator containing defined functionalities [16, 17]. (b) Akiyama et al. further developed a synthetic route to prepare a series of heterobifunctional PEGs [18-21]. After the ring-opening polymerization of ethylene oxide, a second functional group was introduced at the co-end of PEG...

The tendency of nitrones to react with radicals has been widely used in new synthetic routes to well-defined polymers with low polydispersity. The recent progress in controlled radical polymerization (CRP), mainly nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) (695), is based on the direct transformation of nitrones to nitroxides and alkoxyamines in the polymerization medium (696, 697). In polymer chemistry, NMP has become popular as a method for preparing living polymers (698) under mild, chemoselective conditions with good control over both, the polydispersity and molecular weight. 

The synthetic route for making the Janus nanoparticles first consists in the emulsion polymerization of styrene in the presence of silica nanoparticles surface-modified by polymerizable groups. Snowman-like hybrid nanostructures are thus obtained with 85% yield in which the... 

We tried to synthesize various polysilanes with a phenol group(25), however, the only one we were able to obtain was Polysilane(II). The synthetic route is shown in Figure 4. We chose a trimethylsily 1 group as the protecting group of the phenol moiety, because it is easy to remove after the polymerization without damaging the Si-Si main chain, however, it has been reported that in some reactions, the Si-O-C bond cleavage takes place with Na dispersion(27). 

Chemical reactions on polymers as a synthetic route to new polymers and functionalized polymeric materials... 

Reduction is an important method for polymer modification resulting in a variety of useful elastomers and thermoplastics with unique structures and properties. Reduction also offers a convenient synthetic route to polymers with special monomer sequences, which are inaccessible, difficult or too expensive to prepare by conventional polymerization... 

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