Lithium-Assisted Copolymerization of CO2/Cyclohexene Oxide: A Novel and Straightforward Route to Polycarbonates and Related Block Copolymers

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• 作者：Dongyue Zhang ; Hefeng Zhang ; Nikos Hadjichristidis ; Yves Gnanou ; Xiaoshuang Feng
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 12, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：49
• 期：7
• 页码：2484-2492
• 全文大小：544K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1520-5835

文摘

A facile route toward alternating polycarbonates by anionic copolymerization of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and cyclohexene oxide (CHO), using lithium halide or alkoxide as initiators and triisobutylaluminum (TiBA) as activator, is reported. α,ω-Heterobifunctional and α,ω-dihydroxypoly(cyclohexene carbonate)s (PCHC) as well as poly(CHC-co-CHO) copolymers with different carbonate composition could also be easily synthesized by adjusting the amount of TiBA or by adding inert lithium salts. The value of this initiating system also resides in the easy access to PSt-b-PCHC (PSt: polystyrene) and PI-b-PCHC (PI: polyisoprene) block copolymers which can be derived by mere one-pot sequential addition of styrene or dienes first and then of CO₂ and CHO under the same experimental conditions.