Calorimetric study of supramolecular structure formation in the course of linear epoxide-amine polycondensation. Epoxy-amine catenate polymers

The formation of linear epoxy-amine polymers has been studied using the calorimetry method. Catenate polymer (olympic gel) is produced in the course of linear polycondensation of aniline with resorcinol diglycidyl ether. A relation was found to exist between the kinetics of the processes and the glassy state transition temperatures for the samples obtained in the reaction. A model of glassy state formation is proposed, In accordance with latter the polymeric glasses are considered to have the dissipative structure resulting from a kinetically controlled phase transition.Deceased April 8, 1991.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 889–895, May, 1993.The authors are grateful to Prof. Z. Rigbi (Izrael) for help and support and to V. A. Rosniatovskii for participation in the discussion of results