BLOCK COPOLYMERS FROM CYCLIC IMINO ETHERS - A NEW CLASS OF NONIONIC POLYMER SURFACTANT
BLOCK COPOLYMERS FROM CYCLIC IMINO ETHERS - A NEW CLASS OF NONIONIC POLYMER SURFACTANT
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DOI:
10.1021/ma00157a006
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发表时间:
1986-03-01
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
SAEGUSA, T
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作者:
KOBAYASHI, S;IGARASHI, T;SAEGUSA, T
Varioustypes of block copolymers from cyclic imino ether monomers have been designed and prepared by utilizing the living nature of the cationic ring-opening polymerization of the monomers. Block copolymers prepared are AB and BA type diblock (3) and ABA and BAB type triblock copolymers (5 and 9). All copolymers consist of a hydrophilic chain (A block) and a lipophilic chain (B block). The chains are of an amide type structure. The monomers used are seven 2-substituted 2-oxazolines (OZO) and three (unsubstituted and two 2-substituted) 5, 6-dihydro-4íf-l, 3-oxazines (OZI). 2-Methyl-2-oxazoline (MeOZO) was used most often for construction of an effective hydrophilic blockof an iV-acetylethylenimine unit. 2-n-Butyl-(BuOZO), 2-n-octyl-(OcOZO), 2-n-dodecyl-(DoOZO), and 2-phenyl-2-oxazolines (PhOZO) produce a lipophilic block. These block copolymers exhibit excellent surface activities and, hence, are a group of nonionic polymer surfactants. The surface activities reflected by the surface tension (7) in water are very high: a 7 value as low as 27.5 dyn/cm for an AB type diblock copolymer from MeOZO/BuOZO and 23.7 dyn/cm for a BAB type triblock copolymer from MeOZO/OcOZO. One characteristic of the present polyamide type surfactants is that they do not show a clouding point.Cationic ring-opening polymerization of cyclic imino ethers is a versatile, convenient method to prepare linear poly (iV-acylalkylenimines) 1 During the course of our studies on the polymerization of cyclic imino ethers, we have found that poly (iV-acetylethylenimine) is highly hygroscopic and possesses a good hydrophilic property. These findings prompted us to prepare block copolymers from cyclic imino ethers, which containboth hydrophilic and lipophilic chains in the same molecule and, hence, are expected to exhibit surfactant properties. The present paper reports the synthesis andsurfactant properties of AB and BA type diblock and ABA and BAB type triblock