Precision synthesis of sustainable thermoplastic elastomers from lysine‐derived monomers |
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| Authors: | Shanshan Liu Xiaojie Zhang Maosheng Li Xiuyan Ren Youhua Tao |
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| Affiliation: | 1. College of Chemical Engineering, ChangChun University of Technology, Changchun, People's Republic of China;2. Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, People's Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | Novel renewable thermoplastic elastomers were synthesized by sequential polymerization of lysine‐ and itaconic acid‐derived monomers. Ring‐opening polymerization of lysine‐based O‐carboxyanhydride monomer using diethylene glycol as an initiator gave well‐defined α,ω‐dihydroxy functionalized lysine‐derived polyesters. The M n of these polyesters increased with the monomer conversion while retaining relatively narrow molecular weight distributions. Based on the successful controlled polymerization and esterification of α,ω‐dihydroxy with 2‐bromoisobutyryl bromide, the resultant Br‐PL‐Br macroinitiator was used for the atom transfer radical polymerization of N‐phenylitaconimide (PhII). Three poly(N‐phenylitaconimide)‐b‐polyester‐b‐poly(N‐phenylitaconimide) triblock copolymers were prepared containing 12 ? 25 mol% PPhII, as determined by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The properties of the obtained triblock copolymer are evaluated as high‐performance and renewable thermoplastic elastomer materials. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017 , 55 , 349–355 |
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| Keywords: | itaconic acid derivative lysine‐based polyester sustainable thermoplastic elastomers |
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