Journal
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 23, Issue 32, Pages 17300-17309Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01947c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51833003, 21774032, 51621002, 21975073]
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This study investigated the curing mechanism of high-temperature phthalonitrile resins promoted by aromatic amines using density functional theory. The rate-determining step was found to be the nucleophilic addition of amines with nitrile groups on phthalonitrile, leading to amidine and isoindoline intermediates. Amines were crucial in promoting the intramolecular cyclization of amidine intermediates, facilitating the formation of isoindoline intermediates.
High-temperature phthalonitrile resins have a wide range of applications, and understanding their curing mechanism is of great importance for academic research and engineering applications. However, the actual curing mechanism is still elusive. We presented a density functional theory study on the curing mechanism of phthalonitrile resins promoted by aromatic amines using phthalonitrile and aniline as the model compounds. We found that the rate-determining step is the initial nucleophilic addition of amines with nitrile groups on phthalonitrile to generate an amidine intermediate. The amines play a vital role in the H-transfer promoter throughout the curing reaction. The amidine and isoindoline are the critical intermediates, which can readily react with phthalonitrile through 6-membered transition states. The intramolecular cyclization of amidine intermediates is the vital step in forming isoindoline intermediates, which can be significantly promoted by amines. The proposed curing reaction pathways are kinetically more favorable than the previously reported ones, which can account for the formation of triazine, polyisoindoline, and phthalocyanine and provide a molecular-level understanding of the curing reaction.
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