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POLYMER DEGRADATION AND STABILITY
Volume 88, Issue 2, Pages 341-348Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2004.11.009
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PET; polyamide; MXD6; acetaldehyde; Schiff base; conjugated imine
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Color generation in blends of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and poly(m-xylylene adipatnide), PET/MXD6, have been studied. Techniques, including TGA-MS, H-1, C-13 NMR and MALDI-MS, were used to characterize reaction products which result in the observed color generation; both the polymer system and model compounds were used to understand the underlying chemistry. The proposed mechanism, which is different from that generally proposed for yellowing of polyamides alone, is dependent upon acetaldehyde (which itself is a by-product of PET processing). Acetaldehyde is proposed to condense with polyamide amino end groups to produce intermediate (and uncolored) imines. These intermediate imines in turn condense with additional equivalents of acetaldehyde to produce conjugated imines, which are the colored chromophores. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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