Synthesis of poly(sulfonate ester)s by ADMET polymerization
- Parkhurst, Rebecca R. Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Balog, Sandor Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Weder, Christoph Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Simon, Yoan C. Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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07.10.2014
Published in:
- RSC Advances. - Royal Society of Chemistry. - 2014, vol. 4, p. 53967-53974
English
Many hydrocarbon polymers containing heteroatom defects in the main chain have been investigated as degradable polyethylene-like materials, including aliphatic polyesters. Here, acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization was used for the synthesis of aliphatic poly(sulfonate ester)s. The requisite sulfonate ester containing α,ω-diene monomers with varying numbers of methylene groups were synthesized, and their polymerization in the presence of ruthenium-N-heterocyclic (Ru-NHC) alkylidene catalysts was studied. A clear negative neighboring group effect (NNGE) was observed for shorter dienes, either inhibiting polymerization or resulting in low- molecular-weight oligomers. The effect was absent when undec-10-en-1-yl undec-10- ene-1-sulfonate was employed as the monomer, and its ADMET polymerization afforded polymers with appreciable number-average molecular weights of up to 37,000 g/mol and a dispersity Đ of 1.8. These polymers were hydrogenated to afford the desired polyethylene-like systems. The thermal and morphological properties of both saturated and unsaturated polymers were investigated. The incorporation of sulfonate ester groups in the polymer backbone offers an interesting alternative to other heteroatoms and helps further the understanding of the effects of these defects on the overall polymer properties.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- AMI - Chimie des polymères et matériaux
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Chemistry
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- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 258946
- DOI 10.1039/C4RA08788G
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/304649
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