Solvent-free synthesis of pseudopolyrotaxane and polyrotaxane: Efficient threading complexation of a cyclodextrin wheel and a linear polymer axle to yield pseudopolyrotaxane and its fixation to polyrotaxane by the direct grinding of a solid mixture
Solvent-free synthesis of pseudopolyrotaxane and polyrotaxane: Efficient threading complexation of a cyclodextrin wheel and a linear polymer axle to yield pseudopolyrotaxane and its fixation to polyrotaxane by the direct grinding of a solid mixture
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10.1002/pola.21913
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2007-04-15
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Takata, Toshikazu
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作者:
Liu, Runtao;Maeda, Takeshi;Takata, Toshikazu
The solvent-free synthesis and solid-state synthesis of compounds that cannot be obtained by reactions other than those in solution are of great significance or really ideal not only because of simple, economical, and practical manufacturing but also because of environmental compatibility. 1 A variety of organic compounds, including polymers, are actually synthesized under conditions without any solvent or in the solid state. However, it had never been reported that interlocked compounds2, 3 could be obtained by solvent-free synthesis until Takata et al., 4 Tonelli et al., 5 and Harada et al. 6 reported that in 2005. Although Takata et al. demonstrated the solid-state end capping of pseudopolyrotaxane to polyrotaxane could not be obtained by a reaction in solution, Harada et al. found that pseudopolyrotaxane can be formed only if a mixture of cyclodextrins and linear polymers is allowed to stand without any solvent. Although Harada et al.’s method for the solvent-free threading of linear polymers to cyclodextrins is simple and quite interesting, there are a few problems to be solved, such as very long reaction times and difficult characterization of the complex, in addition to unattained derivation to polyrotaxane as the stable form. When such drawbacks can be overcome, the preparation of pseudopolyrotaxane from a mixture of a wheel and axle and its fixation to polyrotaxane under solvent-free conditions can provide a novel and effective protocol for polyrotaxane synthesis, judging from so far reported general aspects of the synthetic difficulty and the limited synthetic methods of interlocked compounds. 2, 3 In this communication, we disclose the very efficient solvent-free syntheses of pseudopolyrotaxane and polyrotaxane, that is, the syntheses of pseudopolyrotaxanes via the threading of linear polymers to cyclodextrins and their fixation to polyrotaxanes by a simple direct grinding of a mixture of materials without any solvent. Because of the usual acylation of the hydroxyl in the linear polymer, the methylated cyclodextrins were used as the wheels.