Synthesis and Pyrolysis of Soluble Cyclic Hf-Schiff Base Polymers

Soluble Hf-containing polymers are significant processable precursors for the fabrication of ultra-high temperature ceramics. In this work, cyclic Hf-Schiff base polymers were synthesized via direct polymerization of hafnium alkoxide and bis-salen monomers. The defined structure and molecular weight of the polymers were characterized by NMR spectroscopy, gel permeation chromatography and MALDI-TOF mass spectroscopy. The feed ratio of monomers regulated the molecular weight and solubility of the polymers. This synthetic strategy features simple operation under ambient conditions, efficient reaction with high yield and cyclic polymers as the main products. The Hf-Schiff base polymers were converted to HfC/C materials after pyrolysis under argon at 1600 °C, which was identified by XRD measurements, elemental analyses and Raman spectroscopy. This work will inspire more precise and efficient synthesis and applications of metallopolymers.     

Cyclic polymers: Methods and strategies

Cyclic polymers have different physical properties compared to their linear counterparts of the same molecular weight. These different properties could have potential impact in the production of new and exciting polymer products. For industry to commercialize such materials, cyclic polymers need to be made on large scales, have controlled molecular weight distributions, and have versatile chemical composition. This highlight article describes many of the synthetic methods and strategies for obtaining highly pure cyclic polymers, and presents kinetic attributes for some of the processes. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem, 2012     

Advanced Developments in Cyclic Polymers: Synthesis,Applications, and Perspectives

Due to the topological effect, cyclic polymers demonstrate different and unique physical and biological properties in comparison with linear counterparts having the same molecular-weight range. With advanced synthetic and analytic technologies, cyclic polymers with different topologies, e.g. multicyclic polymers, have been reported and well characterized. For example, various cyclic DNA and related structures, such as cyclic duplexes, have been prepared conveniently by click chemistry. These types of DNA have increased resistance to enzymatic degradation and have high thermodynamic stability, and thus, have potential therapeutic applications. In addition, cyclic polymers have also been used to prepare organic–inorganic hybrids for applications in catalysis, e.g. catalyst supports. Due to developments in synthetic technology, highly pure cyclic polymers could now be produced in large scale. Therefore, we anticipate discovering more applications in the near future. Despite their promise, cyclic polymers are still less explored than linear polymers like polyolefins and polycarbonates, which are widely used in daily life. Some critical issues, including controlling the molecular weight and finding suitable applications, remain big challenges in the cyclic-polymer field. This review briefly summarizes the commonly used synthetic methodologies and focuses more on the attractive functional materials and their biological properties and potential applications.     

Living Cationic Ring-Opening Polymerization of Hetero Diels–Alder Adducts to Give Multifactor-Controlled and Fast-Photodegradable Vinyl Polymers

Precise control of multiple structural parameters associated with vinyl polymers is important for producing materials with the desired properties and functions. While the development of living polymerization methods has provided a way to control the various structural parameters of vinyl polymers, the concomitant control of their sequence and regioregularity remains a challenging task. To overcome this challenge, herein, we report the living cationic ring-opening polymerization of hetero Diels–Alder adducts. The scalable and modular synthesis of the cyclic monomers was achieved by a one-step protocol using readily available vinyl precursors. Subsequently, living polymerization of the cyclic monomers was examined, allowing the synthesis of vinyl polymers while controlling multiple factors, including molecular weight, dispersity, alternating sequence, head-to-head regioregularity, and end-group functionality. The living characteristics of the developed method were further demonstrated by block copolymerization. The synthesized vinyl polymers exhibited unique thermal properties and underwent fast photodegradation even under sunlight.     

基于天然萜类的可持续性聚合物

随着可持续发展观念的逐步深入,可持续性聚合物已发展成为当今高分子领域的研究热点之一.萜类化合物作为自然界中一类来源广泛的天然资源,具有多种可修饰位点和丰富的功能性,由它出发制备可持续性聚合物,不仅可以简化聚合物的合成步骤,还可以赋予聚合物独特的立体构型、良好的生物活性和生物相容性等特点,进而拓展其在表面涂层、生物医药、组织工程等领域中的应用.本文综述了近年来国内外基于天然萜类可持续性聚合物的研究进展,从萜类化合物的结构特点出发,系统介绍了基于天然萜类可持续性聚合物的合成策略、特性及应用.     

Controlled synthesis and functionalization of PEGylated methacrylates bearing cyclic carbonate pendant groups

Homopolymer bearing cyclic carbonate (CC) group, ABA type triblock copolymers, and (AC)B(AC) type terpolymers with statistical arrangement of A and C monomers bearing side chain CC groups are reported here. Difunctional poly(ethylene glycol) macroinitiators (PEGMIs) were prepared from PEG of three different molecular weights. PEGMIs were subsequently used for the preparation of polymers bearing CC pendant groups from cyclic carbonate methacrylate (CCMA) under atom transfer radical polymerization to yield polymers with low polydispersity index. Homopolymer and ABA type triblock copolymers were obtained by polymerizing CCMA monomer and (AC)B(AC) type statistical terpolymers were obtained when methyl methacrylate was included as a comonomer. No polymer was obtained when styrene was used as comonomer. The cyclic carbonate groups were subjected to ring‐opening reaction with monoamine to yield side chain hydroxyurethane polymers with increased solubility and diamines to yield crosslinked insoluble materials. Changes in wettability characteristics were studied by following the water contact angle of the polymers before and after ring‐opening reaction involving the cyclic carbonate pendant group. The polymers which composed of electrolyte in the form of PEG and coordinating species in the form of pendant cyclic carbonate groups showed conductivity in the range of 2–5 × 10^?6 Scm^?1 at 23 °C after doping with lithium bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide as characterized by impedance spectroscopy. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 1622–1632, 2010     

基于“点击反应”的官能化环酯单体的合成及聚酯性能研究进展

聚酯高分子材料在医药生物材料领域有很广泛的应用,尤其是可作为药物缓释材料应用在人体当中。作为药物缓释材料的聚酯,需要具有较多的修饰位点,便于药物分子或其它小分子的键合。为了能够简便地、高效地将小分子键合到聚酯链上,可采用目前热门的"点击反应"进行小分子键合,这就需要将涉及"点击反应"的官能团引入到聚酯链上。由于采用合成聚酯的方法多为开环聚合反应,就需制备出双键和叁键官能化环酯类单体,便于以开环聚合方法制备官能化聚酯。本文综述了近年来基于"点击反应"而合成的官能化环酯类单体,将酯类单体分为三类进行了合成方法的详细介绍,重点归纳了所得到的官能化聚酯的聚合结果及其所键合的分子,阐述了官能化聚酯所具有的新性质,最后对这类聚酯材料的应用前景做了展望。     

Recent progress on the synthesis of cyclic polymers via ring-expansion strategies

Cyclic polymers are the simplest topological isomers of linear macromolecules, but exhibit properties that differ from linear chains in ways that remain imperfectly understood. The difficulty of synthesizing appropriately pure and high molecular weight cyclic samples has hindered experimental studies. Ring-closure methods, while versatile, are inherently limited in the range of molecular weights that can be achieved. Ring-expansion methods are a much more promising strategy toward obtaining high molecular weight cyclic polymers. The current review focuses on recent developments in ring-expansion polymerization strategies toward the synthesis of high molecular weight cyclic polymers. Significant progress in the last decade has made the synthesis of cyclic polymers possible by a variety of methods, such as ruthenium- and tungsten-catalyzed ring-expansion metathesis polymerization, organocatalytic and Lewis acid-catalyzed zwitterionic polymerization, RAFT and nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization, among many others. While the study of cyclic polymers has long been hampered by synthetic challenges, the recent resurgence of interest in this field presents an exciting opportunity for chemists. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2017 , 55, 2892–2902     

Cyclolinear polysiloxanes. I. Synthesis and characterization

The synthesis and characterization of two novel cyclic siloxanes, diacetoxydiethyltetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane and diacetoxytriethylpentamethylcyclopentasiloxane, and cyclolinear polymers synthesized from these monomers are presented. The cyclic siloxanes were synthesized from tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane and pentamethylcyclopentasiloxane, respectively, by acetylation followed by ethylation. The cyclic monomers were characterized with ¹H NMR spectroscopy. Subsequently, the cyclic siloxanes were self‐condensed into cyclolinear polysiloxanes and cocondensed (extended) with silanol‐terminated polydimethylsiloxane into high‐molecular‐weight polymers containing cyclic units withlinearpolydimethylsiloxane spacers (extended cyclolinear polysiloxanes). The molecular weights of both the cyclolinear polysiloxanes and extended cyclolinear polysiloxanes were determined. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 44: 4039?4052, 2006     

Synthesis,characterization, and photovoltaic properties of dithienylbenzobisazole‐dithienylsilole copolymers

Three conjugated polymers comprised of dioctyl‐dithieno‐[2,3‐b:2',3'‐d]silole and a donor‐acceptor‐donor triad of either cis‐benzbisoxazole, trans‐benzobisoxazole or trans‐benzobisthiazole were synthesized via the Stille cross‐coupling reaction. The impact of varying the heteroatoms and/or the location within the benzobisazole moiety on the optical and electronic properties of the resulting polymers was evaluated via cyclic voltammetry and UV‐Visible spectroscopy. All of the polymers have similar optical band‐gaps of ～1.9 eV and highest occupied molecular orbital levels of ? 5.2 eV. However, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (LUMO) ranged from ? 3.0 to ? 3.2 eV. Interestingly, when the polymers were used as donor materials in bulk‐heterojunction photovoltaic cells with PC₇₁BM as the electron‐acceptor, the benzobisoxazole‐based polymers gave slightly better results than the benzobisthiazole‐containing polymers with power conversion efficiencies up to 3.5%. These results indicate that benzobisoxazoles are promising materials for use in OPVs. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2015 , 53, 1533–1540     

Facile synthesis of phenyl-rich functional siloxanes from simple silanes

Phenyl-rich silicone polymers are used for their excellent thermal properties and high refractive indices. Traditional syntheses of these polymers utilize cationic or anionic equilibration, which limits the molecular weights that can be achieved due, in part, to the coproduction of cyclic monomers that must be removed. Kinetically controlled processes may reduce the impact of these limitations, but require high temperatures, alkyllithium initiators and an inert atmosphere; precise structures are difficult to access. The Piers-Rubinsztajn reaction, combined with hydrolysis, allows the synthesis of highly ordered, Si-H terminated, phenyl-rich silicone homo- and copolymers comprised of phenylmethyl, diphenyl and, dimethylsilicone monomers. The processes are mild and permit a high level of structural control, including alternating copolymers with different levels of phenyl content (Ph/Si = 0.3–1.5) with molecular weights up to ~100 kDa. Yet higher molecular weights could be achieved—M_n up to 300 kDa—when phenyl-rich siloxanes were incorporated into block copolymers with dimethylsilicones (Ph/Si = 0.4). Unlike kinetic processes in which cyclic byproducts are formed by redistribution or backbiting (particularly at high conversion), in this process cyclics form near the onset of the reaction and only with low molecular weight starting materials (< 4 siloxane units).     

Copolymerization of 2-methylene-4-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane with electrophilic vinyl monomers through zwitterionic mechanism

Spontaneous copolymerization of cyclic ketene acetal, 2-methylene-4-phenyl-1,3-dioxolane ( I ) with common electrophilic vinyl monomers, such as methyl α-cyanoacrylate (MCA), acrylonitrile (AN), and methyl methacrylate (MMA) were investigated to further explore zwitterion polymerization method with cyclic ketene acetals. In the reaction of I with MCA and AN, spontaneous copolymerization took place at ambient temperature. The copolymers of I with MCA gave low molecular weight polymers, but copolymers obtained with I and AN were high molecular weight polymers. In the reaction of I and MMA, high molecular weight copolymer was obtained only at temperatures above 80°C. Thus, obtained polymers were not the alternating copolymers and possessed high I content in all the cases. From the above results, macrozwitterionic mechanism was suggested as discussed.     

自缩合乙烯基聚合体系中的环化效应

基于超支化高分子的生长代数模型,利用Monte Carlo模拟方法研究了不同溶剂条件下自缩合乙烯基聚合(SCVP)体系的环化效应.根据SCVP体系的反应机理给出含环反应的微分动力学方程,并通过环化反应的内在特征确定了分子间反应和内环化反应的速率常数.在此基础上,利用Monte Carlo模拟方法得到了高分子的数量分布函数、重均分子量、环数以及含环分子的链段分数等相关物理量,分析了环化效应对于体系平均物理量的影响.进一步根据模拟结果对单体浓度和溶剂效应等对内环化反应的影响予以分析.结果表明,环化效应取决于单体浓度和溶剂效应之间的协同作用,其中单体浓度在环化反应中起着主导作用.     

对可见光有良好吸收的新型烷基芴共聚物的合成、表征与性质

以芴为起始原料, 合成了两种主链含有芴酮及二腈基亚甲基芴结构单元的聚烷基芴光伏材料, 通过红外光谱和核磁共振谱对其进行了表征. 目标共聚物P1和P2的热分解温度分别为461.2和448.1 ℃, 玻璃化转变温度(Tg)分别为122.4和146.6 ℃, 具有良好的热稳定性. 在300~700 nm范围内, 该种材料对太阳光的吸收基本覆盖了整个可见光区域, 电化学分析得出其具有较好的氧化还原可逆性, 并且具有1.94和1.86 eV的相对较窄的能带宽度.     

Direct observation of the formation of a cyclic poly(alkyl sorbate) via chain-growth polymerization by an N-heterocyclic carbene initiator and ring-closing without extreme dilution

1,3-Di-tert-butylimidazol-2-ylidene (NHCtBu), which is one of the typical N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC), was found to initiate the anionic chain-growth polymerization of methyl sorbate (MS) in toluene at −20°C. The polymerization was accelerated by an aluminum Lewis acid, that is, methylaluminum bis(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenoxide) (MAD), to afford cyclic poly(MS)s. Subsequently, thiol-ene click reactions of poly(MS)s with two different alkanethiols were performed using a photoradical initiator to obtain graft-like polymers, which was for the microscopic observation of the chains directly by transmittance electron microscope (TEM). The contamination of linear polymers was hardly observed. This means that the polymers synthesized by our synthetic strategy were indeed cyclic polymers. We also compared the theoretical and experimental chain diameter and width for the graft-like cyclic polymers, where these values were dependent on the molecular weight of the cyclic polymers regulated by the feed monomer/initiator ratio and length of the alkanethiols, respectively.     

Heterometallic copper(Ⅱ) vanadates: synthesis,crystal structures and third-order nonlinear optical properties

Three polymeric heterometallic clusters with 1D, 2D, and 3D frameworks, constructed from a cyclic vanadate {V4O12}4-building block and three geometric constraint ligands, were synthesized by a one-pot self-assembly reaction. Z-scan experiments demonstrated that all the three cluster polymers have large hyperpolarizability γ values. TD-DFT calculations afforded insight into the electronic transitions and spectral characterization of these novel NLO molecular materials.     

Recent progress on cyclic polymers: Synthesis,bioproperties, and biomedical applications

Polymer topologies exert a significant effect on its properties, and polymer nanostructures with advanced architectures, such as cyclic polymers, star‐shaped polymers, and hyperbranched polymers, are a promising class of materials with advantages over conventional linear counterparts. Cyclic polymers, due to the lack of polymer chain ends, have displayed intriguing physical and chemical properties. Such uniqueness has drawn considerable attention over the past decade. The current review focuses on the recent progress in the design and development of cyclic polymer with an emphasis on its synthesis and bio‐related properties and applications. Two primary synthetic strategies towards cyclic polymers, that is, ring‐expansion polymerization and ring‐closure reaction are summarized. The bioproperties and biomedical applications of cyclic polymers are then highlighted. In the end, the future directions of this rapidly developing research field are discussed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2016 , 54, 1447–1458     

Fluorescent materials based on phosphazene derivatives and their applications: Sensors and optoelectronic devices

Phosphazenes, one of the most important classes of organophosphorus compounds containing phosphorus (V) with double bonds between P and N, can be cyclic molecules or high molecular weight polymers that play an important and dominant role in advanced inorganic materials. Phosphazenes have been the subject of many studies over the past two decades as an excellent synthetic platform for the development of fluorescent materials. This study is conducted to evaluate the contribution of phosphazene chemistry to the preparation of fluorescent materials and to emphasize its importance in development of sophisticated materials. This review provides detailed information about the latest developments in the field of cyclic-, dendrimeric- and polymeric phosphazenes based fluorescent materials and their application examples of sensors (fluorescent and electrochemical) and optoelectronic devices (OLED, OFET and electrochromic devices). The future perspective of fluorescence materials based on phosphazenes is also discussed.     

Synthesis of cyclic dendronized polymers via divergent "graft-from" and convergent click "graft-to" routes: preparation of modular toroidal macromolecules

Cyclic dendronized polymers represent a new class of polymers which exhibit a donut-like "toroidal" shape. Two previous unreported methods for preparing this architecture, the divergent "graft-from" and the convergent click "graft-to" approaches, are explored and the resulting products fully characterized. This route is particularly attractive because it enables production of exact linear and cyclic dendronized analogues, enabling direct comparison of their physical properties. In this preliminary work, the divergent "graft from" approach appears to lead to materials with broad PDI at high DP, whereas the "graft to" approach yields more well-defined dendronized cyclic polymers at larger DP. On the basis of reports to date, a combination of click cyclization followed by click "grafting to" provides the most versatile route for the synthesis of cyclic dendronized polymers.     

Research Progress on Synthesis and Application of Cyclodextrin Polymers

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are a series of cyclic oligosaccharides formed by amylose under the action of CD glucosyltransferase that is produced by Bacillus. After being modified by polymerization, substitution and grafting, high molecular weight cyclodextrin polymers (pCDs) containing multiple CD units can be obtained. pCDs retain the internal hydrophobic-external hydrophilic cavity structure characteristic of CDs, while also possessing the stability of polymer. They are a class of functional polymer materials with strong development potential and have been applied in many fields. This review introduces the research progress of pCDs, including the synthesis of pCDs and their applications in analytical separation science, materials science, and biomedicine.