Stereoselective Alkali-Metal Catalysts for Highly Isotactic Poly(rac-lactide) Synthesis

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• 作者：Yangyang Sun ; Jiao Xiong ; Zhongran Dai ; Xiaobo Pan ; Ning Tang ; Jincai Wu
• 刊名：Inorganic Chemistry
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 4, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：55
• 期：1
• 页码：136-143
• 全文大小：405K
• ISSN：1520-510X

文摘

A high degree of chain end control in the isoselective ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of rac-lactide is a challenging research goal. In this work, eight highly active sodium and potassium phenolates as highly isoselective catalysts for the ROP of rac-lactide are reported. The best isoselectivity value of P_m = 0.94 is achieved. The isoselective mechanism is chain-end control through the analysis of the stereoerrors in the microstructure of a final polymer; thus, isotactic multiblock structure polymers are obtained, and the highest melt point can reach 192.5 °C. The donating group in phenolate can clearly accelerate the ROP reaction, potassium complexes are more active than the analogous sodium complexes, and the big spacial hindrance of the ligand can decrease the activity. The high isoselectivities of these complexes mostly result from their sandwich structure constructed by the plane of the crown and the plane of the anthryl group.