Random copolymerization of trimethylene carbonate with L-lactide initiated by amine-bridged bis(phenolate) neodymium alkoxides

Guojun Hu; Yanwei Wang; Yaorong Wang; Xuehua Zhu; Dan Yuan; Yingming Yao

doi:10.1039/d3cc01766d

Random copolymerization of trimethylene carbonate with L-lactide initiated by amine-bridged bis(phenolate) neodymium alkoxides

Chem Commun (Camb). 2023 Jun 1;59(45):6921-6924. doi: 10.1039/d3cc01766d.

Authors

Guojun Hu¹, Yanwei Wang¹, Yaorong Wang¹, Xuehua Zhu², Dan Yuan¹, Yingming Yao^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Dushu Lake Campus, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China. yuandan@suda.edu.cn.
² School of Chemistry and Life Science, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou 215009, People's Republic of China.
³ Suzhou Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Design and Precision Synthesis, Jiangsu Engineering Laboratory of Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 37203466
DOI: 10.1039/d3cc01766d

Abstract

Random copolymerization of trimethylene carbonate (TMC) with L-lactide (LA) under mild conditions is a challenging task in polymer synthesis. Two amino-bridged bis(phenolate) neodymium complexes were synthesized and employed as efficient initiators for the copolymerization of TMC and L-LA under mild conditions to give random copolymers. NMR monitoring experiments of the chain microstructure versus polymerization time confirmed that a TMC/LA random copolymer was generated by a random copolymerization.