Cyclic(arylene disulfide) and polycyclic(arylene sulfide) oligomers were synthesized by catalytic oxidation of arylenedithiols or arylenetrithiols with oxygen in the presence of a copper-amine catalyst. These cyclic(arylene sulfide) oligomers can undergo free radical ring-opening polymerization at a
Copolymerization of elemental sulfur with cyclic(arylene disulfide) oligomers
โ Scribed by Yong Ding; Allan S. Hay
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0887-624X
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โฆ Synopsis
Copolymerization reactions between cyclic(arylene disulfide) oligomers were studied. The cyclic disulfide oligomers derived from 4,4-isopropylidene bisbenzenethiol gave soluble polysulfanes via copolymerization with S 8 . The copolymerization reactions were studied both in solution and melt by GPC and NMR. Solution copolymerization reactions can only form polysulfanes with up to three to four sulfur linkages; however, melt copolymerization reactions gave polysulfanes with up to seven sulfur linkages (average). The melt copolymerization reactions between cyclic disulfide oligomers derived from 4,4 -thiobis(benzenethiol) and S 8 were studied using DSC, TGA, and DMTA. With increasing contents of sulfur in the polysulfanes, T g s, 5% weight losses by TGA, and tan d decreased. With seven sulfur linkages in the polymer, it is a rubber with a T g of 12ะC, a 5% weight loss by TGA of 249ะC, and tan d of 44ะC, respectively.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Elemental sulfur can be reduced to the corresponding thiolate anion species (S โซื2โฌ and ) se- ## โซื2โฌ S 2 lectively by samarium diiodide in the presence and absence of HMPA, respectively. The subsequent alkylation of the thiolate anion species provides a useful synthetic route to dialkyl sulfides