Affiliation:
1. Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Kandi-502284 Sangareddy Telangana India
2. Momentive Performance Materials Pvt. Ltd. Survey No. 09, Hosur Road, Electronic City (west) Bangalore 560100 India
Abstract
AbstractDescribed herein is an efficient ring‐opening polymerization (ROP) of rac‐lactide and ϵ‐caprolactone (ϵ‐CL) using novel bimetallic and monometallic aluminum complexes supported by functionalized P−N ligands. All the aluminum complexes were seen to be active catalysts in the ROP of both rac‐lactide and ϵ‐CL in toluene at 60 °C. Bimetallic aluminum complex, [Al(Me)2{Ph2P(Se)N(CH2)2N−(CH2CH2)2O}(AlMe3)] containing an uncoordinated Se atom and an auxiliary Al atom within the proximity of another central Al cation was observed to exhibit the highest catalytic activity among all the catalysts studied. Kinetic experiments, comparing bimetallic and related monometallic complexes revealed that bimetallic cooperativity among the two metallic centers in bimetallic complex plays an essential role in driving such superior reactivity. We synthesized several isoselective polylactides (PLAs) and polycaprolactones (PCLs) with controlled molecular weights and narrow molecular weight distributions and characterized by 1H, 13C NMR, DSC and TGA.
Subject
Inorganic Chemistry,Organic Chemistry,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Catalysis