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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 130, Issue 42, Pages 13826-13827Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja804357u
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- U.S. DOE [DE-PS36-06GO96002P]
- NSF
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(6S)-3-Methylene-6-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione was synthesized from L-lactide and used as the dienophile to prepare spiro[6-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione-3,2'-bicyclo[2.2.1]hept[5]ene] via an exoselective and diastereofacial-selective Diels-Alder reaction. Polymerizations of this bifunctional lactide derivative were successfully carried out under ring-opening and ring-opening metathesis polymerization conditions to yield high molecular weight and high T(g) polymers. We further demonstrated that by incorporating a small percentage of spiro[6-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione-3,2'-bicyclo[2.2.1]hept[5]ene] into poly(1,5-cyclooctadiene) and copolymerising it with DL-lactide, novel polymeric alloys of PLA can be created that have tremendous improvements in toughness over PLA and the corresponding binary blend of PLA and poly(1,5-cyclooctadiene).
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