Journal
POLYMER
Volume 50, Issue 3, Pages 817-824Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2008.12.006
Keywords
Synthesis; Cyanate resin; Phenolphthalein
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50673014, 20874007]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University of China [NCET-06-0280]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars
- State Education Ministry [2005-546]
- Dalian University of Technology
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Two new cyanate monomers simultaneously containing phthalide group and different alkyl substituents on the phenylene rings (o-PCY and t-PCY) and the Phenolphthalein-based cyanate (p-PCY) were successfully synthesized by the reaction of o-cresolphthalein, thymolphthalein and phenolphthalein with cyanogen bromide in the presence of triethylamine, respectively. Their chemical structures were confirmed by means of FTIR, NMR and elemental analysis methods. All these monomers owned sufficiently wide processing temperature windows and could be readily cured without the addition of catalyst. The dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) results showed that the introduction of phthalide structure into the polycyanurate network Could effectively improve the thermal properties of the cyanate ester (CE) resin. Especially, the T-g values of the fully cured p-PCY, o-PCY and t-PCY resins are 362 degrees C, 328 degrees C and 298 degrees C, respectively, which are apparently higher than that of most bisphenol-based cyanate resins reported in the literatures (190-290 degrees C). The thermal and thermo-oxidative properties as well as the water absorptions of the cured products were compared with those of the bisphenol A cyanate resin (BACY), and the structure-property relationships were explained according to the chemical structures and crosslinking densities of the formed polymer networks. The high-T-g thermosetting materials thus prepared are expected to expand the usage of CEs to areas where higher temperature requirements are encountered. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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