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Ring opening polymerization ofD,L-lactide in the presence of zinc metal and zinc lactate

✍ Scribed by Schwach, G.; Coudane, J.; Engel, R.; Vert, M.

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
264 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0959-8103

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✦ Synopsis

The polymerization of D,L-lactide in the presence of zinc metal was investigated for low values of the monomer/catalyst ratio in order to allow endgroup characterization of the growing chains by high resolution 360 MHz 1H NMR. The results showed that the polymerization was moisture sensitive and that only a fraction of zinc was active. Small quantities of a side-product were detected and identiÐed as zinc lactate. This compound appeared to be an efficient initiator of the ring-opening polymerization in the bulk. Zinc lactate is thus proposed as the actual initiator of the polymerization of 1,4-dioxane-2,5-diones in the presence of zinc metal. A polymerization mechanism based on a cationic process co-catalysed by lactic acid is also proposed, which accounted very satisfactorily for experimental data. Initiation by zinc lactate yielded high molecular weight polymers with a high degree of conversion and rather high polymerization rates. Therefore, zinc lactate appears to be an attractive alternative to the initiations by zinc metal and stannous octoate, the latter being suspected of some toxicity.

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