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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages 427-435Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2005.01.030
Keywords
profluorescent nitroxide; radical trap; alkoxyamine; polypropylene; thermal oxidation; stabilisation; degradation; induction period; fluorescence; chemiluminescence
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The novel profluorescent nitroxide, 1, 1,3,3-tetramethyldibenzo[e,g]isoindolin-2-yloxyl (TMDBIO) was investigated as a probe for the formation of polymer alkyl radicals during the thermo-oxidative degradation of unstabilised polypropylene. TMDBIO possesses a very low fluorescence quantum yield due to quenching by the nitroxide group; however, when the free-radical moiety is removed by reaction with alkyl radicals (to give an alkoxyainine), strong fluorescence is observed. Using spectrofluorimetry, the reaction of the nitroxide with polymer alkyl radicals during oxidation has been monitored. Significantly, the trapping of polymer alkyl radicals during the induction period at 120 degrees C is observed, when it is not possible to detect changes in the polymer using either chemiluminescence or infrared spectroscopy. This highlights the sensitivity of this method and represents the direct observation of free-radical generation in polypropylene in the induction period. TMDBIO also successfully stabilises polypropylene under thermo-oxidative conditions, which is consistent with its action as a radical trap. At elevated temperatures (150 degrees C), at the end of the induction period when the polymer is extensively degraded, the fluorescence decreases, due to secondary oxidation of the TMDBIO. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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