Phosphonate-Functionalized Polycarbonates Synthesis through Ring-Opening Polymerization and Alternative Approaches

Hien The Ho; Nam Hoai Nguyen; Marion Rollet; Trang N T Phan; Didier Gigmes

doi:10.3390/polym15040955

Phosphonate-Functionalized Polycarbonates Synthesis through Ring-Opening Polymerization and Alternative Approaches

Polymers (Basel). 2023 Feb 15;15(4):955. doi: 10.3390/polym15040955.

Authors

Hien The Ho¹, Nam Hoai Nguyen¹, Marion Rollet¹, Trang N T Phan¹, Didier Gigmes¹

Affiliation

¹ Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Chemistry Department, Institut de Chimie Radicalaire UMR 7273, Saint Jérôme Campus, 13397 Marseille, France.

Abstract

Well-defined phosphonate-functionalized polycarbonate with low dispersity (Ð = 1.22) was synthesized using organocatalyzed ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of novel phosphonate-based cyclic monomers. Copolymerization was also performed to access different structures of phosphonate-containing polycarbonates (PC). Furthermore, phosphonate-functionalized PC was successfully synthesized using a combination of ROP and post-modification reaction.

Keywords: phosphonate-functionalized polycarbonate; post-modification; ring-opening polymerization (ROP); “click” chemistry.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.