Efficient initiators for the ring‐opening polymerization of L‐lactide: Synthesis and characterization of NNO‐tridentate Schiff‐base zinc complexes
Efficient initiators for the ring‐opening polymerization of L‐lactide: Synthesis and characterization of NNO‐tridentate Schiff‐base zinc complexes
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L-丙交酯开环聚合的有效引发剂:NNO-三齿希夫碱锌配合物的合成和表征
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10.1002/pola.22956
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2008
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Chu‐Chieh Lin
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作者:
Wen;Yong Huang;Chu‐Chieh Lin
A series of efficient catalysts, based on zinc alkoxides coordinated with NNO-tridentate Schiff-base ligands (L1H-L6H), for ring opening polymerization of L-lactide have been prepared. The reactions of diethyl zinc (ZnEt2) with L1H-L6H yielded [(μ-L)ZnEt]2 (1a–6a), respectively. Further reaction of compounds 1a–6a with benzyl alcohol (BnOH) produced the corresponding compounds of [LZn(μ-OBn)]2 (1b–6b), respectively. X-ray crystal structural studies reveal that all of these compounds 1a–6a are dimeric bridging through the phenolato oxygen atoms of the Schiff-base ligand. However, the molecular structures of 1b–6b show a dimeric character bridging through the benzylalkoxy oxygen atoms. Ring-opening polymerization of L-lactide, initiated by 1b–6b, proceeds rapidly with good molecular weight control and yields polymer with a very narrow molecular weight distribution. Experimental results show that the substituents on the imine carbon of the NNO-ligand affect the reactivity of zinc complexes dramatically. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 6466–6476, 2008