Thermoelastic and dielectric studies of poly(3,3-dimethyl oxetane) chains

Poly(3,3-dimethyl oxetane) was synthesized by ring opening polymerization of 3,3-dimethyl oxetane. Elongation experiments were performed on unswollen elastomeric networks prepared from this polymer over the temperature range 30–90°C. The changes in the tensile stress while the networks crystallized were examined at various elongations. From thermoelastic data which were free from the effects of network crystallization, the temperature coefficient of the chain dimensions was found to be 1.1 × 10^?3 K^?1 in the vicinity of 60°C. The dipole moment ratio and its temperature coefficient were also measured; the average values of these parameters at 30°C were 0.20₆ and 2.5 × 10^?3 K^?1, respectively. All of these experimental-configuration-dependent properties were critically interpreted in terms of the rotational isomeric-state model. In comparing theory and experiment, conclusions were obtained which confirm earlier results according to which gauche states about C—C skeletal bonds in poly(3,3-dimethyl oxetane) are strongly favored over the alternative trans states.     

A facile approach for the construction of the oxetane ring from 5α-acyloxy-Δ~(4(20)) - taxoids

An oxetane ring can be constructed from 5α-acyloxy-Δ4(20)-taxoids. Hie facile intramolecular acyl migration from 5- to 20-position under slightly basic conditions enabled the construction of the oxetane ring in a convenient short cut, whereas the acyl migration from 2- to 20-position left the 2-hydroxyl accessible to a later benzoylation. An unexpected five-mem-bered 4-O, 20- O sulfite ring was formed in the attempted construction of the oxetane ring with 5α-triflate as a leaving group. After the construction of the oxetane ring, treatment with strong base LiHMDS and acetyl chloride gave the expected 4-O-acetate while treatment with acetic anhydride and DMAP gave a 4-O-acetoacetate.     

Nitrogen-Rich Oxetanes Based on the Combination of Azides and Tetrazoles

Literature known energetic oxetane derivatives have a nitrogen content of up to 49.98 %. Through the introduction of azide and tetrazole functionalities attached to an oxetane ring, energetic oxetanes with higher nitrogen contents than previously reported in the literature were obtained. The newly synthesized oxetane derivatives were extensively characterized via ¹H NMR, ¹³C{¹H} NMR, ¹⁴N NMR, ¹⁵N NMR, ¹H-¹⁵N HMBC, FT-IR spectroscopy and/or DTA. Their crystal structures were elucidated using X-ray diffraction, their sensitivities towards impact, friction and electrostatic discharge were determined and their energetic properties were calculated using the EXPLO5 code.     

Oxetane vs. cyclobutane formation in the photocycloaddition of enones to olefins. The photoaddition of 6-fluoro-4,4-dimethyl-2-cyclohexenone to 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene. Preliminary communication

n-π^* Excitation of 6-fluoro-4,4-dimethyl-2-cyclohexenone in the presence of 2,3-dimethyl-2-butene leads selectively to the formation of the corresponding oxetane. The factors which influence the oxetane vs. cyclobutane formation ratio in photoadditions of cyclic enones to olefins are discussed.     

A Divergent Approach to the Marine Diterpenoids (+)‐Dictyoxetane and (+)‐Dolabellane V

We present a full account of the development of a strategy that culminated in the first total syntheses of the unique oxetane‐containing natural product (+)‐dictyoxetane and the macrocyclic diterpene (+)‐dolabellane V. Our retrosynthetic planning was guided by both classical and nonconventional strategies to construct the oxetane, which is embedded in an unprecedented 2,7‐dioxatricyclo[4.2.1.0^3,8]nonane ring system. Highlights of the successful approach include highly diastereoselective carbonyl addition reactions to assemble the full carbon skeleton, a Grob fragmentation to construct the 11‐membered macrocycle of (+)‐dolabellane V, and a bioinspired 4‐exo‐tet, 5‐exo‐trig cyclization sequence to form the complex dioxatricyclic framework of (+)‐dictyoxetane. Furthermore, an unprecedented strain‐releasing type I dyotropic rearrangement of an epoxide‐oxetane substrate was developed.     

Hydroxyl chain‐end functionalization of polymeric organolithium compounds with oxetane

Hydroxyl chain‐end functionalizations of polymeric organolithium compounds with oxetane (trimethylene oxide) were studied in benzene at 25 °C. Functionalizations of poly(styryl)lithium and polystyrene‐oligo‐butadienyllithium proceed efficiently to form the corresponding ω‐hydroxypropyl‐functionalized polymers in 98 and 97% isolated yields, respectively. No nonfunctional polymer (≤1–2%) was detected by thin layer chromatography (TLC) analysis for either polymer. All functionalized polymers were characterized by ¹³C and ¹H NMR analyses; no evidence for oxetane oligomerization at the chain end was observed. The MALDI‐TOF mass spectrum of ω‐hydroxypropylpolystyrene was consistent with the expected structure without any detectable oligomerization of oxetane. A small, but detectable series of peaks corresponding to nonfunctional polystyrene was also observed in the MALDI‐TOF mass spectrum. The functionalization of the adduct of 1,1‐diphenylethylene and PSLi produced the corresponding ω‐hydroxypropyl‐functionalized polymer in only 86% isolated yield. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 2684–2693, 2006     

Synthesis and modification of oxetane based oligomers with 3-ethoxypropylamine by focused microwave irradiation

Synthesis of oligomers was achieved via condensation of several bisphenol sodium salts in water with 3,3^′-bis(chloromethyl)oxetane in nitrobenzene under phase transfer catalysis with tetrabutyl ammonium bromide. All proceedings were developed both by classical and under focused microwave irradiation with complete experimental parameters control. The rigid oxetane chain was then opened partially with 3-ethoxypropylamine in order to generate some specific properties. Higher substitution was obtained by microwave activation in the presence of the zinc chloride which is well known to react as microwave absorber.     

NEW BLUE CROSSLINKABLE POLYMERS FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES

Here, we report on new blue electroluminescence (EL) crosslinkable polymers containing fluorene/phenylene alternating repeating units. Additionally, they contain polymerizable oxetane groups attached through flexible hexyloxy chains to phenylene units of the polymer backbone. The copolymers were synthesized via Pd-catalyzed Suzuki coupling reactions. The copolymers obtained were found to be soluble and easily processable from common organic solvents such as chloroform or toluene and have been characterized by ¹H and ¹³C NMR spectroscopy, FT-IR spectroscopy and elemental analysis. The degree of polymerization has been determined by gel permeation chromatography (GPC). The thermal properties of the copolymers have been characterized by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The optical properties of the polymers were investigated in solution by UV/VIS spectroscopy. The polymers were photo-crosslinked in spin-coated thin films to yield insoluble networks.     

Synthesis and Photopolymerization of Silicon-Containing Multifunctional Oxetane Monomers

Abstract

A series of silicon-containing multifunctional oxetane monomers has been prepared and characterized. These monomers were compared among themselves and with other oxetane monomers with respect to their reactivity in photoinitiated cationic polymerization.     

The first example of the copolymerization of cyclic acid anhydrides with oxetane by bulky titanium bisphenolates

The copolymerization of oxetane with glutaric anhydride was found to proceed with bulky titanium bisphenolate ( 1 ) as the initiator. The ¹H NMR spectrum of the produced copolymer shows that the copolymer contains both alternating units and oxytrimethylene units in the polymer main chain. 1 was also effective for the copolymerization of oxetane with other cyclic acid anhydrides, affording the corresponding copolymers. With the titanium bisalkolate complex ( 4 ), a copolymer rich in alternating sequences was obtained.     

Copolymerization of carbon dioxide and oxetane catalyzed by aluminum porphyrin complex system

Tetraphenylporphinatoaluminum chloride ([TPP]AlCl) catalyst and tetra-n-butylammonium bromide (TBAB) cocatalyst system is effective for the copolymerization of CO₂ and oxetane even under low CO₂ pressure (~2 MPa). In the presence of toluene as a solvent, poly(trimethylene carbonate) (PTMC) containing >99% of carbonate linkages with M_n = 8600 and M_w/M_n = 1.70 was synthesized. This is the first report of PTMC formation with excellent ratio of carbonate linkages from oxetane and CO₂. According to the kinetic analysis, proton nuclear magnetic resonance (¹H NMR) and matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF/MS) measurements of the products, PTMC was mainly synthesized via (i) the trimethylene carbonate (TMC) formation from CO₂ and oxetane and (ii) the successive ring-opening polymerization of TMC.     

Competing Fragmentation,Substitution and Elimination in the Solvolysis of Alkylated 3-Chloropropanols and their Ethers. Fragmentation reactions no. 28

The unstrained 3-chloroalcohols 1a , 2a and 3a do not undergo solvolytic fragmentation in neutral and weakly acidic 80% ethanol, only substitution and elimination products being formed by the limiting S_N1-E1 mechanisms. This also applies to the corresponding ethers 1b and 3b . Addition of sodium hydroxide causes the observed rate constants for the 3-chloroalcohols to rise steeply by factors of at least 10³ to 10⁵. These level off at higher base concentrations due to an opposing ionic strength effect. Whereas 3a fragments quantitatively in the presence of base, 1a and 2a fragment in competition with elimination to the Δ³-olefins 9a and 10 , respectively. 2a also yields 2% of the oxetane 6b . These results support a concerted base-induced fragmentation mechanism which competes with intramolecular base-induced elimination (E_i) in the case of the acyclic chloroalcohols 1a and 2a . The formation of small amounts of the oxetane 6b from 2a is attributed to intramolecular nucleophilic substitution at the tertiary carbon atom.     

Synthesis and characterization of poly(3,3 bis(azidomethyl)oxetane‐co‐ε‐caprolactone)s

The quasi‐living cationic copolymerization of 3,3‐bis(chloromethyl)oxetane (BCMO) and ε‐caprolactone (ε‐CL), using boron trifluoride etherate as catalyst and 1,4‐butanediol as coinitiator, was investigated in methylene chloride at 0°C. The resulting hydroxyl‐ended copolymers exhibit a narrow molecular weight polydispersity and a functionality of about 2. The reactivity ratios of BCMO (0.26) and ε‐CL (0.47), and the T_g of the copolymers, indicate their statistical character. The synthesis of poly(3,3‐bis(azidomethyl)oxetane‐co‐ε‐caprolactone) from poly(BCMO‐co‐ε‐CL) via the substitution of the chlorine atoms by azide groups, using sodium azide in DMSO at 110°C, occurs without any degradation, but the copolymers decompose at about 240°C. All polymers were characterized by vapor pressure osmometry or steric exclusion chromatography, ¹H‐NMR and FTIR spectroscopies, and DSC. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 37: 1027–1039, 1999     

The liquid-phase oxidation of 2,4-dimethylpentane

The initiated oxidation of 2, 4-dimethylpentane in the neat liquid phase at 100°C with 760 torr O₂ gives more than 90% of a mixture of 2,4-dihydroperoxy-2,4-dimethylpentane and 2-hydroperoxy-2, 4-dimethylpentane in a ratio of 7:1. The rate of oxidation depends closely on the [initiator]^1/2, consistent with a mechanism in which chain termination occurs mostly by interactions of two 2-hydroperoxy-2, 4-dimethyl-4-pentylperoxy radicals. 2, 4-Dimethylpentane oxidizes only one sixth as fast as isobutane at the same rate of initiation at 100°C. In cooxidations of the same hydrocarbons, it is 0.71 as reactive as isobutane toward any of the peroxy radicals involved. 2, 4-Dimethylpentane oxidizes 7.5 times as fast at 1.25°C as at 50°C for the same rate of initiation, but the ratio of dihydroperoxide to monohydroperoxide increases only from 5 to 7, corresponding to a difference in activation energy between intramolecular and intermolecular abstraction of 1 kcal/mole. The overall activation energy (E_p – E_t/2) is 10.7 kcal/mole, close to the value of 12 kcal/mole found for isobutane. Absolute values for E_p, E_t, k_p, k_r, and k_t were derived. Ring closure of 2-hydroperoxy-2, 4-methyl-4-pentyl radicals to oxetane, not detected during oxidation, was observed when this radical was generated at 100°C in the near-absence of oxygen. The ratio of rate constants for oxetane formation and addition of oxygen to the 2, 4dimethyl-2-hydroperoxy-4-pentyl radical is about 5.4 × 10^?5 M at 100°C. Thus, ring closure to oxetane is too slow to compete with addition of oxygen above ?200 torr. At 100°C, 2, 3-dimethylbutane gave no evidence of any intramolecular abstraction. However, 2, 3-dimethylpentane did give at least 12% 2, 4-glycol or hydroxyketone.     

Synthesis of multihydroxyl branched polyethers by cationic copolymerization of 3,3‐bis(hydroxymethyl)oxetane and 3‐ethyl‐3‐(hydroxymethyl)oxetane

The cationic ring‐opening polymerization of 3,3‐bis(hydroxymethyl)oxetane (BHMO) and the copolymerization of BHMO with 3‐ethyl‐3‐(hydroxymethyl)oxetane (EOX) were studied. Medium molecular weight polymers (number‐average molecular weight ≈ 2 × 10³) were obtained in bulk polymerization. Poly[3,3‐bis(hydroxymethyl)oxetane], as highly insoluble, was only characterized by gel permeation chromatography and NMR methods in the esterified form. Copolymers of BHMO and EOX that were slightly soluble in organic solvents were characterized in more detail. In a copolymerization from a 1:1 mixture, the comonomers were consumed at equal rates. Matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight analysis confirmed that a random 1:1 copolymer was formed. ¹³C NMR analysis indicated that in contrast to previously described homopolymers of EOX in which the degree of branching was limited, the homopolymers of BHMO were highly branched. This pattern was preserved in the copolymers; EOX units were predominantly linear, whereas BHMO units were predominantly branched. The copolymerization of BHMO with EOX provides, therefore, a route to multihydroxyl branched‐polyethers with various degrees of branching containing ? OH groups exclusively as ≡C? CH₂? OH units. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 40: 1991–2002, 2002     

The Synthesis,Characterization, and Photoinitiated Cationic Polymerizaton of Difunctional Oxetanes

Abstract

Seven novel difunctional oxetane monomers have been prepared and characterized using standard spectroscopic techniques. The photoinitiated cationic polymerization of these seven monomers was carried out and their reactivity compared to a typical diepoxide monomer. In these studies the reactivities of the various oxetane monomers were evaluated and compared by three different techniques: gel time measurements, differential scanning photocalorimetry, and real time infrared spectroscopy. It was observed that the difunctional oxetanes are generally more reactive than their structurally similar epoxide counterparts in photoinitiated cationic polymerization.     

Synthesis and study of organic nitrates of heterofunctional series. 5. Synthesis of 3,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxetane mono- and dinitrates and 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol (pentaerythritol) mono- and dinitrates

New procedures were developed for the synthesis of 3,3-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxetane dinitrate (1) by O-nitration of the corresponding glycol (3) or its mononitrate (6), which were prepared by the reactions of 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol (pentaerythritol) (2) mono- (4) and dinitrates (5), respectively, with alkali. A new method was devised for the synthesis of compounds 4 and 5 by the reaction of tetraol 2 with concentrated HNO₃ in dichloroethane. The structures of compounds 1 and 6 were established by X-ray diffraction analysis.     

Cationic Photocrosslinkable Polydimethylsiloxane. III. Synthesis and Photocrosslinking of Polydimethylsiloxane Bearing Oxetane Groups

Abstract

From 3-hydroxymethyl-3-methyl oxetane, we synthesized three oxetane monomers with allylic, diethoxysilane or triethoxysilane functions. These monomers allowed us to prepare different polydimethylsiloxanes bearing oxetane groups by two routes. One is hydrosilylation of allylic monomer on hydrogeno polydimethylsiloxane, with different percentages of Si-H bonds. The second route is a condensation of α,ω-dihydroxy polydimethylsiloxane with di and tri ethoxysilane monomers. By using a photocalorimeter, we studied the kinetic of cationic photopolymerization of a polydimethylsiloxane bearing 7.4% oxetane functions. Influence of temperature in the range 35 to 125°C showed a maximum conversion for 80°C due to an increase in transfer and termination reactions.     

Synthesis and cationic ring‐opening polymerization of oxetane monomer containing five‐membered cyclic carbonate moiety via highly chemoselective addition of CO2

The bicyclic amidinium iodide effectively catalyzed the reaction of carbon dioxide and the epoxy‐containing oxetane under ordinary pressure and mild conditions with high chemoselectivity to give the corresponding oxetane monomer containing five‐membered cyclic carbonate quantitatively. The cationic ring‐opening polymerization of the obtained monomer by boron trifluoride diethyl ether proceeded to give linear polyoxetane bearing five‐membered cyclic carbonate pendant group in high yield. The molecular weight of the polyoxetane was higher than that of polyepoxide obtained by the cationic ring‐opening polymerization of epoxide monomer containing five‐membered cyclic carbonate. The cyclic carbonate functional crosslinked polyoxetanes were also synthesized by the cationic ring‐opening copolymerization of cyclic carbonate having oxetane and commercially available bisoxetane monomers. Analyses of the resulting polyoxetanes were performed by proton nuclear magnetic resonance, size exclusion chromatography, thermogravimetric analysis, and differential scanning calorimetry. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019 , 57, 2606–2615     

Redox initiated cationic polymerization of oxetanes

3,3‐Disubstituted oxetane monomers were found to undergo rapid, exothermic redox initiated cationic ring‐opening polymerization in the presence of a diaryliodonium or triarylsulfonium salt oxidizing agent and a hydrosilane reducing agent. The redox reaction requires a noble metal complex as a catalyst and several potential catalysts were evaluated. The palladium complex, Cl₂(COD)Pd^II, was observed to provide good shelf life stability while, at the same time, affording high reactivity in the presence of a variety of hydrosilane reducing agents. A range of structurally diverse oxetane monomers undergo polymerization under redox cationic conditions. When a small amount of an alkylated epoxide was added as a “kick‐start” accelerator to these same oxetanes, the redox initiated cationic polymerizations were extraordinarily rapid owing to the marked reduction in the induction period. A mechanistic interpretation of these results is offered. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2015 , 53, 1854–1861