Polymerization of 1,2‐epoxypropane and copolymerization with carbon dioxide catalyzed by metalloporphyrins
Polymerization of 1,2‐epoxypropane and copolymerization with carbon dioxide catalyzed by metalloporphyrins
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DOI:
10.1002/macp.1978.021790529
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发表时间:
1978-05
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
N. Takeda;S. Inoue
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作者:
N. Takeda;S. Inoue
Homopolymerization was carried out in an argon atmosphere at 20 C without solvent. Copolymerization was carried out under 1 bar (bubbling of COz) or 8, l bar pressure of COz under the same conditions. After the removal of volatile materials, a part of the reaction mixture was dissolved in tetrahydrofuran and then filtered off from metalloporphyrin by a Teflon filter. The filtrate was subjected to gel permeation chromatography for the determination of the average molecular weight and the distribution of molecular weight of polymer, using poly (propy1ene glycol) as standard. Isolation of the polymer was carried out by passing the benzene solution of the products through the column packed with silica gel three times using chloroform/hexane as eluent. The content of the oxycarbonyl units in the copolymer 3 was determined by'H NMR3), the tacticity of poly (l, 2-epoxypropane) by I3C NMR4'. Among the metalloporphyrins examined (Tab. I), the tetraphenylporphine (4)/diethylalu-minium chloride (1: l) catalyst system 6 exhibits a particularly high activity. By this system, 38% of 2 polymerized in 20min at 20 C, whereas diethylaluminium chloride required 1440min to polymerize 7, 3% of 2.Under atmospheric pressure of C02 at 20 C, the catalyst systems lb or 5 gave copolymer 3, though the content of oxycarbonyl units was low (Tab. 2). When the copolymerization was carried out under a higher C02 pressure (8, l bar), the content of oxycarbonyl units increased (from 15 to 40 mole-%). With the system 6 only homopolymerization of 2 proceeded even in the presence of C02 (1, O bar and 8, l bar). When N-methyltetraphenylporphine (7)/diethyl-