Issue 37, 2020

Kinetic modeling study of the group-transfer polymerization of alkyl crotonates using a silicon Lewis acid catalyst

Abstract

Kinetic modeling is effective in the development of efficient and manageable polymerization systems. Herein, a kinetic model of the group-transfer polymerization (GTP) of an alkyl crotonate using a silicon Lewis acid catalyst having a trialkylsilyl (trimethylsilyl, triethylsilyl, tert-butyldimethylsilyl, or triisopropylsilyl) moiety and various silyl ketene acetals with a corresponding trialkylsilyl moiety as an initiator is developed to understand the polymerization mechanism. The kinetic model quantitatively verifies proposed elementary reactions. When using a trimethylsilyl moiety, the activation energy of the cyclization reaction (a well-known termination reaction in GTP; Ec = 37.8 kJ mol−1) exceeds that of the propagation reaction (Ep = 28.6 kJ mol−1). This reveals that termination reactions are accelerated more than propagation reactions at high temperatures. In addition, comparison of various trialkylsilyl moieties confirmed that the greater bulkiness of the alkyl substituent on the silyl group increases the ratio of the activation energies of the cyclization and propagation reactions.

Graphical abstract: Kinetic modeling study of the group-transfer polymerization of alkyl crotonates using a silicon Lewis acid catalyst

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Mar 2020
Accepted
19 Jun 2020
First published
14 Sep 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Polym. Chem., 2020,11, 5981-5991

Kinetic modeling study of the group-transfer polymerization of alkyl crotonates using a silicon Lewis acid catalyst

M. Imada, Y. Takenaka, T. Tsuge and H. Abe, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 5981 DOI: 10.1039/D0PY00353K

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