OXONAN-2-ONE

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CAS: 5698-29-3
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Synonyms: OXONAN-2-ONE

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Hong-Bing Ji

Sun Yat-Sen University
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Yingwei Li

South China University of Technology
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Shi-jun Liao

South China University of Technology
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Martin Saunders

Yale University
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Gordon W. Gribble

Dartmouth College
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Philip Hodge

The University of Manchester
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Andrew P. Dove

University of Warwick
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Co-reporter: J. A. Wilson, S. A. Hopkins, P. M. Wright, and A. P. Dove
pp: 346
Publication Date(Web):February 18, 2016
DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.5b00940
The copolymerization of an ε-substituted ε-lactone, menthide (MI), and a range of nonsubstituted lactones (6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-membered rings) was investigated in order to determine the factors that affect the sequencing of the MI copolymers. Analysis by quantitative 13C NMR spectroscopy showed the copolymerization of MI with a nonsubstituted lactone of ring size 7 or less produced a randomly sequenced copolymer, as a consequence of the smaller lactone polymerizing first and undergoing rapid transesterification as MI was incorporated. Conversely, copolymerization with larger ring lactones (ring size 8 and above) produced block-like copolymers as a consequence of MI polymerizing initially, which does not undergo rapid transesterification side reactions during the incorporation of the second monomer. Terpolymerizations of a small ring lactone, macrolactone, and menthide demonstrated methods of producing lactone terpolymers with different final sequences, depending on when the small ring lactone was injected into the reaction mixture.

Roeland J. M. Nolte

University of Nijmegen
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