Toward the large scale synthesis of rigid-rod functional polymers

功能刚性棒聚合物是一种新型聚合物，对于各种要求越来越高的 例如，汽车或电子领域的应用。这种聚合物通常通过以下方法制备 昂贵的、难以合成的单体的缩聚，以产生聚酰亚胺、聚酮、 聚醚酮等。这些聚合物的使用受到它们的高成本和一些固有的困难的限制 准备工作。Saint-Jean Photochie，一家总部位于圣让苏尔黎塞留的公司，专门生产 高端聚合物和聚合物添加剂，想在他们的产品中加入一系列功能工程聚合物 产品组合下的客户对这类产品的需求日益增长。在Claverie组中，有一组 我们专门从事功能聚合物的合成，我们设计了一条看似简单而廉价的路线 用于生产功能工程聚合物。它们是通过插入聚合反应制备的 功能性降冰片。此类聚合物具有优异的热、光学和热学性能。主 该项目的目标是研究放大制备两种聚合物(一种)的可能性 为汽车行业设计的，另一个为电子行业设计的)并评估实验室规模 在Claverie组中进行的工艺最终可用于工业环境(即在圣让 Photochie)。这将是两家合作伙伴之间的首次合作。如果成功，圣让 Photochie将能够向他们的客户提供这种聚合物。目前所有现有的功能刚性杆 聚合物是由外国公司生产的。这个创新的项目将对加拿大有利，因为它 将使ST-Jean Photochie在生产功能性硬质棒方面处于国际领先地位 聚合物，作为必然结果，招募当地的HPQ。

Functional rigid-rod polymers are novel polymers with increasing importance for a variety of demanding applications, for example for automotive or electronic domains. Such polymers are usually prepared by polycondensation of expensive, hard-to-synthesize monomers, to yield polyimides, polyketones, polyetherketones, etc... The use of these polymers is restricted by their high cost and some inherent difficulty of preparation. Saint-Jean Photochimie, a St-Jean sur Richelieu based company specialized in the production of high-end polymer and polymer additives, would like to add a series of functional engineering polymers to their portfolio of products under a growing customer demand for such products. In the Claverie group, a group specialized in the synthesis of functional polymers, we have devised a seemingly simple and inexpensive route for the production of functional engineering polymers. They are prepared by the insertion polymerization of functional norbornenes. Such polymers have exceptional thermal, optical and thermal properties. The main objective of this project is to investigate the possibility to scale up the preparation of two polymers (one designed for the automotive sector, the other for the electronic sector) and to assess whether the lab-scale process performed in the Claverie group could be eventually be used in an industrial setting (ie in Saint-Jean Photochimie). This will be the first collaboration between the two partners. If successful, Saint-Jean Photochimie will be able to offer such polymers to their customers. Currently all existing functional rigid-rod polymers are produced by foreign companies. This innovative project will be advantageous to Canada, as it will place St-Jean Photochimie in a leading international position for the production of functional rigid-rod polymers, with as corollary, the recruitment of local HPQs.