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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 5, Issue 15, Pages 4580-4588Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4py00384e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21361140371, 21274143, 51021003]
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Catalyst systems obtained from the inexpensive, ligand-free and commercially available (MgBu2)-Bu-n and alcohols were used for the ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of epsilon-caprolactone (epsilon-CL) under mild conditions. The catalytic system of (MgBu2)-Bu-n/Ph2CHOH showed very high activity as compared with the system of (MgBu2)-Bu-n/Ph3COH, which applied a more bulky methanol derivative. Interestingly, in the presence of excess amount of alcohol (Ph2CHOH), i.e., varying the OH-to-Mg ratio in a wide range from 10 : 1 to 800 : 1, the system (MgBu2)-Bu-n/Ph2CHOH still remained highly active, and produced up to 800 polycaprolactone (PCL) chains per Mg center, suggesting a living immortal polymerization mode. The molecular weights of the obtained PCLs are accurately controlled when the ratio of [CL](0)/[Mg](0) changed from 500 to 8000 together with narrow molecular weight distributions. Moreover, diblock PCL-b-PLA copolymers with narrow PDIs have been facilely achieved. Furthermore, the allyl- and propargyl-functionalized diphenylmethanols could be employed as the chain transfer agents (CTA) in this system for in situ construction of allyl-and propargyl-functionalized PCLs that were facilely modified further to PCLs with multiple functionality as building blocks for amphiphilic and topological microstructured PCLs via coupling and click reactions.
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