Preparation of biorenewable poly(γ-butyrolactone)-b-poly(L-lactide) diblock copolyesters via one-pot sequential metal-free ring-opening polymerization

Yong Shen; Jinbo Zhang; Na Zhao; Fusheng Liu; Zhibo Li

doi:10.1039/C8PY00389K

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Preparation of biorenewable poly(γ-butyrolactone)-b-poly(l-lactide) diblock copolyesters via one-pot sequential metal-free ring-opening polymerization†

Yong Shen,

^a Jinbo Zhang,^b Na Zhao,^b Fusheng Liu^a and Zhibo Li

*^b

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^a College of Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China

^b Key Laboratory of Biobased Polymer Materials, Shandong Provincial Education Department, School of Polymer Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, China
E-mail: zbli@qust.edu.cn

Abstract

The preparation of block copolymers containing poly(γ-butyrolactone) blocks remains a synthetic challenge owing to the unfavorable thermodynamics towards the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of non-strained five-membered rings that makes them prone to copolymerization with other cyclic lactones or lactides rather than the formation of homopolymers. By choosing a suitable organophosphazene superbase as a catalyst, we realized the successful one-pot preparation of poly(γ-butyrolactone)-b-poly(L-lactide) by sequential ROP of γBL and L-LA for the first time. The thermal stabilities, crystallization, and melting behaviors of the obtained diblock copolyesters were also investigated.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8PY00389K
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 09 Mar 2018
Accepted: 23 Apr 2018
First published: 24 Apr 2018

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Polym. Chem., 2018,9, 2936-2941

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Y. Shen, J. Zhang, N. Zhao, F. Liu and Z. Li, Polym. Chem., 2018, 9, 2936 DOI: 10.1039/C8PY00389K

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Preparation of biorenewable poly(γ-butyrolactone)-b-poly(l-lactide) diblock copolyesters via one-pot sequential metal-free ring-opening polymerization†

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