Living cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers with a tricyclodecane or tricyclodecene unit: Synthesis of new poly(vinyl ether)s with high glass‐transition temperature
Living cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers with a tricyclodecane or tricyclodecene unit: Synthesis of new poly(vinyl ether)s with high glass‐transition temperature
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具有三环癸烷或三环癸烯单元的乙烯基醚的活性阳离子聚合:合成具有高玻璃化转变温度的新型聚(乙烯基醚)
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10.1002/pola.20224
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2004
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T. Kodaira
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作者:
Takeshi Namikoshi;T. Hashimoto;T. Kodaira
Among cationically polymerizable monomers, the class of vinyl ether is one of the representatives in cationic vinyl polymerization. 1–3 The living character of the cationic polymerization of vinyl ethers provided a variety of well-defined polymers with functional groups in their pendants and terminals. 4–11 Although such functionalized poly (vinyl ether) s are promising functional polymers for particular purposes, there are almost no examples of commodity polymers (ie, structural polymeric materials for general purpose use) consisting totally of poly (vinyl ether) backbones. Polymers of alkyl vinyl ethers are rubbery at room temperature when the alkyls are linear chains. Examples of glass-transition temperature (Tg) of poly (alkyl vinyl ether) s are as follows; 12 alkyl: methyl, 34 C; ethyl, 42 C; n-butyl, 55 C; n-octyl; 80 C. In terms of their low glass-transition temperature, such poly (alkyl vinyl ether) s have potential to be used as rubber or elastomer. Recently, hydroxyl-terminated telechelic poly (ethyl vinyl ether) s were commercially developed in Japan, 13 which are applicable for the synthesis of new polyurethanes with poly (vinyl ether) soft segments. 13 These thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers are a segmented block copolymer having alternating soft and hard segments, in which the urethane hard block domains formed in the soft block matrix serve as physical crosslinking points to impart rubber elasticity to the polymers. Another candidate for thermoplastic elastomers based on poly (vinyl ether) s is a ABA-type block copolymer, where the A is a hard polymer segment with high Tg and the B is a soft polymer segment with low Tg. To prepare such new elastomeric polymers consisting totally of poly (vinyl ether) backbones, the controlled synthesis of poly (vinyl ether) s with high Tg is necessary. Our previous approach to obtain poly (vinyl ether) s with high Tg involved the synthesis of poly (vinyl ether) s with urethane groups in their side chains. 14However, poly (cyclohexyl vinyl ether) exhibits much higher glass-transition temperature (Tg; 50 C15) than poly (n-hexyl vinyl ether)(Tg; 77 C12). This fact suggests that introduction of polycyclic units into pendant chains of poly (vinyl ether) s may increase their Tg up to temperatures high enough to apply for plastic materials. In the present study, three types of new vinyl ethers with a tricyclic alkane and alkene unit, 8-vinyloxytricyclo-[5.2. 1.02, 6] decane (1), 8-and 9-vinyloxytricyclo [5.2. 1.02, 6]-dec-3-ene (2), and 8-vinyloxymethyltricyclo [5.2. 1.02, 6]-decane (3), were employed as monomers for the synthesis of new poly (vinyl ether) s with rigid tricyclic units (Scheme 1). Particular attention was focused on the living