Polymerization of Cyclic Monomers, 10,

Methyl 2‐(bicyclo[3.1.0]hex‐1‐yl)acrylate ( 1 ) was synthesized from methyl 2‐(cyclopentene‐1‐yl)‐2‐hydroxyacetate by cyclopropanation, followed by oxidation to the corresponding bicyclic 2‐oxoacetate and Wittig olefination with methyltriphenylphosphonium bromide. Initiated with 2,2′‐azoisobutyronitrile at 65 °C in chlorobenzene, the radical homopolymerization of 1 occurred with opening of the cyclopropane ring leading to a polymer with a glass transition temperature of 90 °C. The reactivity of 1 in radical copolymerization was higher than that of methyl methacrylate.

     

Structure–Activity Relationship of Palladium Phosphanesulfonates: Toward Highly Active Palladium‐Based Polymerization Catalysts

Palladium phosphanesulfonate [R₂P(C₆H₄‐o‐SO₃)PdMeL] catalysts permit the copolymerization of an exceptional large number of functional olefins with ethylene. However, these catalysts usually have reduced activity. We here have conducted a systematic study on the influence of the phosphane substituent, R, on activity and molecular weight. Phosphanes with strong σ‐donating character are shown to lead to the most active catalysts. Thus, the catalyst based on phosphane bis‐tert‐butyl‐phosphanyl‐benzenesulfonic acid (R=tBu) exhibits unprecedented high activity, rapidly polymerizing ethylene at room temperature to yield a linear polymer of high molecular weight (M_w=116 000 g mol^?1). The influence of the R group on the catalyst ability to incorporate methyl acrylate is also investigated.     

Thermal Polymerization of Styrene,Part 1 – Bulk Polymerization

The thermal bulk polymerization of styrene is critically reviewed. There is still no generally accepted kinetic model for the thermal radical formation process, but ideal second‐ or third‐order models are widely used for modeling bulk systems. Since initiation and chain transfer reactions cannot be treated independently from one another as long as the same species is considered to be involved, it is concluded that non‐ideal kinetics, possibly in form of a (micro‐)viscosity dependency of the Mayo mechanism, are likely to be present. A mathematical model is presented that keeps the predictive capabilities of the Hui‐Hamielec model, but allows facile implementation of reaction specific modifications. Part 2 of this paper will focus on the effect of compartmentalization on the thermal polymerization of styrene.

     

丙烯腈在1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑氯化物中的聚合及其表征

以离子液体1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑氯化物([bmim]Cl)为溶剂,研究了丙烯腈(AN)的自由基均聚和共聚反应,通过红外光谱(FT-IR)和核磁共振(NMR)分析了聚合产物的化学结构,研究了第二单体丙烯酸甲酯(MA)的含量对聚合反应速率及转化率的影响.结果表明:以离子液体为溶剂所得聚丙烯腈(PAN)的化学结构与在常规溶剂中的一致,聚合产物的组成比与投料比接近,分子量随着AN含量的增加而增大,反应转化率随着AN含量的增加先增大后减小,所得PAN的分子量分布窄(<1.7)、分子量高.差示扫描量热分析(DSC)结果表明:MA含量低于2%时有利于环化反应的控制.     

Quantitative Correlation of Chromatographic Retention and Acute Toxicity for Alkyl（1- phenylsulfonyl） Cycloalkane Carboxylates and Their Structural Parameters by DFT

1 INTRODUCTION Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR)is one of the necessary methods that could be emp- loyed to evaluate the hazards of organic chemicals. QSAR equation could be applied to predict the biological activity of unknown compounds, espe- cially for initial screening and evaluation of toxic compounds[1]. Moreover, the quantitative relation- ship between molecular structure and chromatogra- phic retention (capacity factor lgKW) could also bedeveloped to explain …     

Observations of Gelation and Vitrification of a Thermosetting Resin during the Evolution of Polymerization Shrinkage

Summary: We report a new methodology to determine the gelation and vitrification of a thermosetting material during the polymerization process by detecting the evolution of cure shrinkage through a thermomechanical analyzer (TMA) and a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). The gelation and vitrification determined by the evolution of cure shrinkage correspond favorably with that measured by conventional rheological techniques. The isoconversional phenomenon at gelation point was further confirmed by monitoring cure shrinkage at temperatures ranging from 90 to 110 °C. Whereas, vitrification was observed to occur at higher degrees of cure with increasing cure temperatures. Inhibited cure shrinkage was also observed in the vitrification region where the reaction transitioned from chemical to diffusion controlled.

Combination of dimension change detected by DMA and heat flow detected by DSC for determining the relationship of cure shrinkage and degree of cure.     

Evaluation of the Chain Length Distribution in Free‐Radical Polymerization, 1. Bulk Polymerization

A method for the direct computation of the chain length distribution in a bulk polymerization is developed, based on the discretization procedure introduced by Kumar and Ramkrishna (Chem. Eng. Sci. 1996 , 51, 1311) in the context of particle size distribution. The overall distribution of chain lengths is partitioned into a finite number of classes which are supposed to be concentrated at some appropriate pivotal chain lengths. Several of the involved reactions lead to the formation of chain whose length differs from the pivotal values. Rules have been introduced in order to share chains between two contiguous classes, which have been designed so as to preserve two well‐defined properties of the distribution, such as, for example, two of its moments. The method has been applied to a polymerization system including propagation, bimolecular terminations and two different chain branching mechanisms: chain transfer to polymer and crosslinking. In addition, complex systems such as one with chain length‐dependent kinetic constants or a two‐dimensional distribution of chain length and number of branches have been considered.     

Designed Synthesis of a 1D Polymer in Twist-Stacked Topology via Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Polymerization

To synthesize a fully organic 1D polymer in a novel twist-stacked topology, we designed a peptide monomer HC≡CCH₂-NH-Ile-Leu-N₃, which crystallizes with its molecules H-bonded along a six-fold screw axis. These H-bonded columns pack parallelly such that molecules arrange head-to-tail, forming linear non-covalent chains in planes perpendicular to the screw axis. The chains arrange parallelly to form molecular layers which twist-stack along the screw axis. Crystals of this monomer, on heating, undergo single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) topochemical azide–alkyne cycloaddition (TAAC) polymerization to yield an exclusively 1,4-triazole-linked polymer in a twist-stacked layered topology. This topologically defined polymer shows better mechanical strength and thermal stability than its unordered form, as evidenced by nanoindentation studies and thermogravimetric analysis, respectively. This work illustrates the scope of topochemical polymerizations for synthesizing polymers in pre-decided topologies.     

Hybridized particle swarm algorithm for adaptive structure training of multilayer feed-forward neural network: QSAR studies of bioactivity of organic compounds

The multilayer feed-forward ANN is an important modeling technique used in QSAR studying. The training of ANN is usually carried out only to optimize the weights of the neural network and without paying attention to the network topology. Some other strategies used to train ANN are, first, to discover an optimum structure of the network, and then to find weights for an already defined structure. These methods tend to converge to local optima, and may also lead to overfitting. In this article, a hybridized particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach was applied to the neural network structure training (HPSONN). The continuous version of PSO was used for the weight training of ANN, and the modified discrete PSO was applied to find appropriate the network architecture. The network structure and connectivity are trained simultaneously. The two versions of PSO can jointly search the global optimal ANN architecture and weights. A new objective function is formulated to determine the appropriate network architecture and optimum value of the weights. The proposed HPSONN algorithm was used to predict carcinogenic potency of aromatic amines and biological activity of a series of distamycin and distamycin-like derivatives. The results were compared to those obtained by PSO and GA training in which the network architecture was kept fixed. The comparison demonstrated that the HPSONN is a useful tool for training ANN, which converges quickly towards the optimal position, and can avoid overfitting in some extent.     

Towards predicting the solubility of CO2 and N2 in different polymers using a quasi-SMILES based QSPR approach

The solubility of gases in various polymers plays an important role for the design of new polymeric materials. Quantitative structure–property relationship (QSPR) models were designed to predict the solubility of gases such as CO₂ and N₂ in polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl acetate (PVA) and poly (butylene succinate) (PBS) at different temperatures and pressures by using quasi-SMILES codes. The dataset of 315 systems was split randomly into training, calibration and validation sets; random split 1 led to 214 training (r² = 0.870 and RMSE = 0.019), 51 calibration (r² = 0.858 and RMSE = 0.020) and 50 validation (r² = 0.869 and RMSE = 0.017) sets. The suggested approach based on the quasi-SMILES, which are analogues of the traditional SMILES gives reasonable good predictions for solubility of CO₂ and N₂ in different polymers. The described methodology is universal for situations where the aim is to predict the response of an eclectic system upon a variety of physicochemical and/or biochemical conditions.     

稀土席夫碱配合物催化己内酯可控开环聚合

 通过稀土氯化物与席夫碱钠盐的交换反应制备了一系列以 3,5-二叔丁基水杨醛缩苯胺为配体的稀土席夫碱配合物. 对其中的钕席夫碱配合物进行了 X射线单晶衍射分析, 发现其单晶结构为五角双锥构型, 所得席夫碱稀土配合物可以单组分催化 ?-己内酯开环聚合. 深入研究了钕席夫碱配合物催化己内酯的开环聚合机理, 考察了不同聚合条件对单体转化率、产物分子量及分子量分布的影响. 结果表明, 该聚合反应速率为一级, 聚合反应具有较好的可控性. 聚合物端基分析表明, 聚合反应以配位-插入机理进行.     

A novel approach toward the prediction of the glass transition temperature: Application of the EVM model,a designer QSPR equation for the prediction of acrylate and methacrylate polymers

We describe an original QSPR model called the EVM model (Energy, Volume, Mass) to calculate the glass transition temperature (T_g) of aliphatic acrylate and methacrylate homopolymers using classical molecular mechanics and dynamics. The latter was used to calculate an energy density function related to the cylindrical volume of a 20 monomer unit polymer segment (TSSV, Total Space around a Standard deviation Volume). We then calculated the T_g as a function of this density function and the repeat unit molecular weight, although no interchain interactions were taken into account. For linear and branched aliphatic acrylate and methacrylate polymers, the standard deviation from linear regression was 12 K, and the r² was 0.96. The model allows calculation of the T_g with an average absolute error of error of 10% for linear and branched derivatives not included in the original linear regression analysis. The results obtained with the EVM model are compared with those obtained with Bicerano's model. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci A: Polym Chem 35: 2579–2590, 1997     

2－甲基－2－甲氧基羰基－5－次甲基－1，3－二氧环戊－4－酮的合成和阴离子聚合

本文报导了一种环状新单体，２－甲基－２－甲氧基羰基－５－次甲基－１，３－二氧环戊－４－酮的合成，并用红外、核磁及元素分析对单体和中间体的结构进行了鉴定．在－７０℃及干燥氮气保护下，用９－芴锂作阴离子５：发剂对此新单体进行了阴离子开环聚合反应的研究．聚合物的红外和核磁谱图表明：在聚合物中存在两种结构单元，这说明在聚合过程中同时存在开环和不开环的两种情况。虽然在聚合物中，这两种结构单元的量应取决于两种相应的碳阴离子的相对稳定性，但是开环聚合在热力学上是有利的，因为开环的结果形成了更稳定的羰基．用粘度法测定了聚合物的特性粘数。     

Stereoselective Synthesis and Physicochemical Properties of Liquid‐Crystal Compounds Possessing a trans‐2,5‐Disubstituted Tetrahydropyran Ring with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy

Three stereoselective syntheses and the physicochemical properties of trans,trans‐5‐(4‐ethoxy‐2,3‐difluorophenyl)‐2‐(4‐propylcyclohexyl)tetrahydropyran, which is an important liquid‐crystal compound with a large negative dielectric anisotropy (Δε=?7.3), are described. The key step in the construction of the trans‐2,5‐disubstituted tetrahydropyran ring in the first approach involved a benzylic cation mediated intramolecular olefin cyclization of a 2‐allyloxy‐1‐arylethanol derivative. The second method included the Et₂Zn‐induced 1,2‐aryl shift of a bromohydrin obtained from a hetero‐Diels–Alder reaction, followed by stereoselective bromination. The third approach utilized the hetero‐Diels–Alder reaction of trans‐4‐propylcyclohexanecarboxaldehyde and a 2‐aryl‐3‐(trimethylsilyl)oxy‐1,3‐butadiene, followed by stereoselective protonation. From results obtained by using a quantum chemical calculation method, the reason why the target compound shows a large negative Δε value is discussed.