Copolymers were prepared by the condensation of rigid benzoyl-terminated poly@-benzamide) and flexible anilino-terminated poly(m-benzamide) prepolymers. The use of two monomers of the AB type and of end-capped prepolymers resulted in the formation of diblock molecules uncontaminated by triblock or m
Tailored rigid-flexible block copolymers, 1. Synthesis of diblocks of poly(p-benzamide) and poly(m-phenylene isophthalamide)
✍ Scribed by Nayaku N. Chavan; Alberto Ciferri; Carlo Dell'Erba; Marino Novi; Carmen S. Renamayor
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 674 KB
- Volume
- 197
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1022-1352
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Anilino‐terminated poly(m‐phenylene isophthalamide) [PhNH(MPD‐I)] and benzoyl terminated poly(p‐benzamide) [PhCO(PBA)] were coupled according to a one‐pot two‐step scheme of Yamazaki's reaction. Diblock copolymers with varying length of the flexible PhNH(MPD‐I) segment, and similar length of the rigid PhCO(PBA) block, were freed from unbound homopolymers exploiting their selective solubility in N,N‐dimethylacetamide (DMAc) containing varying amounts of LiCl. The method should also allow a fractionation of the compositional distribution of the copolymers. Copolymers were characterized by ^1^H NMR spectroscopy, thermal analysis and intrinsic viscosity. In an aggregating solvent the viscosity appears to decrease with the length of the flexible block.
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