Ring-opening polymerization catalysts

The present paper deals broadly with the copolymerization of ethylene oxide and tetrahydrofuran using cationic ring-opening polymerization catalysts. A comparison is made of EO/THF polyether glycol with PTMEG and their respective polyurethanes. 

NHCs as Ring-Opening Polymerization Catalysts (Type 3)... 

SYNTHESIS OF CHARGE-NEUTRAL HETEROLEPTIC RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION CATALYSTS BASED ON LARGE ALKALINE EARTHS... 

Ring-opening polymerizations are catalyzed by a wide variety of substances, including the bases OH and RO and the acids H and BF3 water is also used as a catalyst. The reactions proceed by the opening of the ring by the catalyst to form an active species. 

Ring-Opening Polymerization. Ring-opening polymerization of cycloolefins in the presence of tungsten- or molybdenum-based catalysts proceeds by a metathesis mechanism (67,68). 

Ring opening polymerization may also occur by an addition chain reaction. For example, a ring opening reaction polymerizes trioxane to a polyacetal in the presence of an acid catalyst. Formaldehyde also produces the same polymer ... 

Rhenium compounds as catalysts, 136, 137, 141, 144, 146, 148, 150 Ring-opening polymerization, 143 catalysts for, 140 thermodynamics of, 156 Rotary engine, 123... 

PA-5 can be synthesized by die anionic ring-opening polymerization of a-piperidone.12 First the catalyst, A -acetyl piperidone, is prepared. Then the polymerization is performed anionically, well below its melting temperature. 

Polylactides, 18 Poly lactones, 18, 43 Poly(L-lactic acid) (PLLA), 22, 41, 42 preparation of, 99-100 Polymer age, 1 Polymer architecture, 6-9 Polymer chains, nonmesogenic units in, 52 Polymer Chemistry (Stevens), 5 Polymeric chiral catalysts, 473-474 Polymeric materials, history of, 1-2 Polymeric MDI (PMDI), 201, 210, 238 Polymerizations. See also Copolymerization Depolymerization Polyesterification Polymers Prepolymerization Repolymerization Ring-opening polymerization Solid-state polymerization Solution polymerization Solvent-free polymerization Step-grown polymerization processes Vapor-phase deposition polymerization acid chloride, 155-157 ADMET, 4, 10, 431-461 anionic, 149, 174, 177-178 batch, 167 bulk, 166, 331 chain-growth, 4 continuous, 167, 548 coupling, 467 Friedel-Crafts, 332-334 Hoechst, 548 hydrolytic, 150-153 influence of water content on, 151-152, 154... 

An interesting feature of the ring opening polymerization of siloxanes is their ability to proceed via either anionic or cationic mechanisms depending on the type of the catalyst employed. In the anionic polymerization alkali metal hydroxides, quaternary ammonium (I NOH) and phosphonium (R POH) bases and siloxanolates (Si—Oe M ) are the most widely used catalysts 1,2-4). They are usually employed at a level of 10 2 to KT4 weight percent depending on their activities and the reaction conditions. The activity of alkali metal hydroxides and siloxanolates decrease in the following order 76 79,126). 

The poly(glycolide-co-caprolactone) (PGCL) copolymer was mainly synthesized by the ringopening polymerization. A copolymer with 1 1 mole ratio was synthesized by the ring-opening polymerization in the presence of the catalyst Sn(Oct)2 by Lee and coworkers. The polymerization was under vacuum, and heated in an oil bath at 170°C for 20 h. The copolymer was then dried under vacuum at room temperature for 72 h. The schematic reaction equations are shown in Schemes 8.5 and 8.6. 

A star copolymer (SCP) of PCLA was synthesized by Younes and coworkers. This kind of SCP PCLA elastomer was also synthesized in two steps. First, the small molecular SCP was produced by ring-opening polymerization of s-caprolactone (s-CL) with glycerol as initiator and stannous 2-ethyUiexanoate as catalyst. Second, the living SCP was further reacted with different ratios of a cross-linking monomer, such as 2,2-bis(s-CL-4-yl)-propane (BCP) and s-CL. The SCP elastomers had very low glass transition temperature (—32°C). It was reported that the SCPs were soft and weak with physical properties similar to those of natural bioelastomers such as elastin. A logarithmic decrease in each tensile property with time was observed in this SCP PCLA. 

Ring-opening polymerization was used to synthesize PTMC. The polymerization was carried out in evacuated and sealed glass ampoules with stannous octoate as a catalyst. The schematic reaction equations are shown in Schemes 8.7 and 8.8. The reaction time for aU homo- and copolymerizations were three days and the reaction temperature at 130 2°C. The obtained polymers were purified by dissolution in chloroform and precipitation in isopropanol. The precipitated polymers were collected, and washed with fresh isopropanol, and dried under reduced pressure at room temperamre until constant weight. 

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