CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF POLY-ETA-CAPROLACTONE
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF POLY-ETA-CAPROLACTONE
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DOI:
10.1107/s0567740870005198
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发表时间:
1970-01-01
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NIEGISCH, WD
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BITTIGER, H;MARCHESSAULT, RH;NIEGISCH, WD
The unit cell of poly-e-caprolactone was found to be orthorhombic with dimensions a= 7.496+ 0.002, b= 4.974+ 0" 001, c= 17.297+ 0-023/~(fiber axis). The space group is P212121. This unit cell is only compatible with an extended planar chain conformation of the molecule involving two monomer residues related by a twofold screw axis in the chain direction. The P212~ 2~ space group and the density of 1.146 g. cm-3 indicate that the unit cell contains two chains with opposite orientation ('up'and'down'). Intensity measurements and structure factor calculations require the rotation of the plane of the chains about their axis to an angle of 28 with respect to the a axis; longitudinal chain shift places the ester groups in planes perpendicular to the c axis. Folded chain single crystals with a lancet-like structure were observed by electron microscopy.Introduction Polyesters prepared by ring opening polymerization of lactones are coming into prominence as a result of new polymerization catalysts (Chujo, Kobayashi, Suzuki, Tokyhara & Tanabe, 1967; Asahara & Katayama, 1964; Alderson, 1956; Okamura, Higashimore & Ta-naka, 1962). Such macromolecules are intrinsically dif-ferent from conventional polyesters (Fuller & Frosch, 1939; Fuller & Erikson, 1957) in that the chain has a sense of direction by the uniform orientation of the ester groups within the chains. Depending on the dis-tance between the ester groups in the chains and their interactions one can find different intra-or intermole-cular arrangements of the chains. For example, it has been found that polypropiolactone can exist in two dif-ferent polymorphs with an extended and helical con-formation respectively (Wasai, Saegusa & Furakawa, 1964). Of particular interest in recent years have been polyesters with side groups attached to the main chain such. as poly-fl-h. ydroxybutyrate (Okamura & Marches-sault, 1967) which occurs as an optically active natural polymer and polypivalolactone (Knobloch & Statton, 1967) which is an interesting synthetic fiber mate-rial. Poly-e-caprolactone. made by ring opening poly-merization of e-caprolactone has the following struc-ture: