Polysiloxanes molecular weights

Cased W, Sauer T and Wegner G 1988 Soluble phthalocyaninato-polysiloxanes—rigid rod polymers of high molecular-weight/Macromo/. Chem. Rapid Commun. 9 651-7... 

In summary, silica gel can be an excellent stationary phase for use in exclusion chromatography in the separation of high molecular weight, weakly polar or polarizable polymers. It cannot be used for separating mixtures that require an aqueous mobile phase or operate at a pH outside the range of 4-8. Examples of the type of materials that can be separated by exclusion chromatography using silica gel are the polystyrenes, polynuclear aromatics, polysiloxanes and similar polymeric mixtures that are soluble and stable in solvents such as tetrahydrofuran. 

Detailed information on the copolymerization of cyclic trifluoropropylmethyl-siloxane trimer and octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane is also very limited in the open literature26 27 . Recently, preparation of various amine terminated (dimethyl-tri-fluoropropyl,methyl)siloxane oligomers with varying molecular weights and backbone compositions has been reported 69115 ll7). Table 11 shows various properties of the oligomers produced as a function of composition. These types of modification play very important roles in determining the solubility characteristics and hence the compatibility of resultant polysiloxanes with other conventional organic monomers... 

The polyoxyalkylene units in the copolymer have a molecular weight below 500, and the polysiloxane units have 3 to 50 silicon atoms. The resin has a phenol/aldehyde ratio of 2 1 to 1 5 and an average molecular weight of 500 to 20,000 Dalton. The composition shows synergistic demulsification activity when compared with the individual components. The siloxane units can be either in blocks [979,980] of the polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane copolymer or randomly distributed [728,729]. 

Base and acid catalyzed ring opening polymerization of cyclotri-siloxane, -[Me2SiO]3- [e.g. reaction (10)], is a well-known method of generating high molecular weight polysiloxanes. 

It is intriguing to note that good synthetic routes to tractable, high molecular weight (>20K) polysilazanes are still not available despite the extensive efforts and progress made in the last five years and the facility with which the analogous polysiloxanes are prepared. Part of the problem may be that the reaction mechanisms for the above discussed approaches are still poorly understood. We would like to suggest here some additional reasons for this lack of success. 

Hydrolysis of 1 is carried out at room temperature by the slow addition of aqueous NH3 at 0°C (Scheme 2). The resulting hydroxyl end-functional polysiloxane (2) is dispersed as fine droplets in the aqueous medium and can be separated by centrifugation. When neat, 2 is a colorless fluid with molecular weight ranging from... 

Processing requirements for thermoset composites, with specific examples of silicones, were recently reported.514 Composites based on the low molecular weight polysiloxanes for medical applications have been reviewed (in Russian).515 Silicone rubber/hydrogel composites have been evaluated for medical applications.516... 

One drawback of high-temperature GC analysis is that sample degradation for the high molecular weight AEs and APEOs might occur. High-temperature capillary columns are coated with a stabilised bonded polysiloxane film, which allows a column oven temperature of up to 400°C. 

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