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SUBMITTER: Azemar F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8156564 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Azemar Fabrice F Gimello Olinda O Pinaud Julien J Robin Jean-Jacques JJ Monge Sophie S
Polymers 20210514 10
We report herein a study on the alcohol-free, ring-opening polymerization of trimethylene carbonate (TMC) in THF, catalyzed by 1,5,7-triazabicyclo [4.4.0] ec-5-ene (TBD) with ratios n<sub>TBD</sub>/n<sub>TMC</sub> ranging between 1/20 and 1/400. In all cases, the reaction proceeds very rapidly, even faster than in the presence of alcohol initiators, and provides PTMC with molecular weights up to M<sub>n</sub> = 34,000 g mol<sup>-1</sup>. Characterization of the obtained PTMC samples by MALDI-TOF ...[more]