Journal
POLYMERS
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym9080345
Keywords
xylan; poly(p-dioxanone); organic catalysis; ionic liquid; ring-opening graft polymerization
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31170550, 31170555]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2014ZG0046]
- Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou City in China [201504010033]
- National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals
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Recently, organic catalysis has become a powerful alternative to the use of more traditional metal-based catalysts. In this study, 4-dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP), 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene (DBU), and 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD) were applied to mediate the ring-opening graft polymerization (ROGP) of p-dioxanone (PDO) with xylan-based hemicelluloses in ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ([Bmim]Cl). Excellent control of the molar ratio of the catalyst to anhydroxylose units (AXU) in xylan was found for a good tuning of the weight percent gain (WPG) of xylan-graft-poly(p-dioxanone) (xylan-g-PPDO) copolymers. As a result, the maximum WPG of xylan-g-PPDO copolymers was 431.07% (DMAP/AXU of 2/1), 316.72% (DBU/AXU of 0.2/1), and 323.15% (TBD/AXU of 0.2/1), respectively. The structure of xylan-g-PPDO copolymers was characterized with FT-IR and NMR. The thermal properties of copolymers were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTG) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and a significant difference was observed regarding the transition temperature (T-g), melting temperature (T-m), and crystallization temperature (T-c).
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