TY - JOUR
T1 - Master of Chaos and Order
T2 - Opposite Microstructures of PCL-co-PGA-co-PLA Accessible by a Single Catalyst**
AU - Rittinghaus, Ruth D.
AU - Zenner, Johannes
AU - Pich, Andrij
AU - Kol, Moshe
AU - Herres-Pawlis, Sonja
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH
PY - 2022/3/7
Y1 - 2022/3/7
N2 - One catalyst, two reaction set-ups, three monomers and unlimited macromolecular microstructural designs: The iron guanidine complex [FeCl2(TMG5NMe2asme)] (1) polymerizes lactide faster than the industrially used Sn(Oct)2 and shows high activity towards glycolide and ϵ-caprolactone. Its distinguished features enable the synthesis of both block and random-like copolymers in the melt by a simple change of the polymerization set-up. Sequential addition of monomers yields highly ordered block copolymers including the symmetrical PLA-b-PGA-b-PCL-b-PGA-b-PLA pentablock copolymers, while polymerizations of monomer mixtures feature enhanced transesterifications and pave the way to di- and terpolymers with highly dispersed repeating unit distributions. A robust catalyst active under industrially applicable conditions and producing copolymers with desired microstructures is a major step towards biocompatible polymers with tailor-made properties as alternatives for traditional plastics on the way towards a sustainable, circular material flow.
AB - One catalyst, two reaction set-ups, three monomers and unlimited macromolecular microstructural designs: The iron guanidine complex [FeCl2(TMG5NMe2asme)] (1) polymerizes lactide faster than the industrially used Sn(Oct)2 and shows high activity towards glycolide and ϵ-caprolactone. Its distinguished features enable the synthesis of both block and random-like copolymers in the melt by a simple change of the polymerization set-up. Sequential addition of monomers yields highly ordered block copolymers including the symmetrical PLA-b-PGA-b-PCL-b-PGA-b-PLA pentablock copolymers, while polymerizations of monomer mixtures feature enhanced transesterifications and pave the way to di- and terpolymers with highly dispersed repeating unit distributions. A robust catalyst active under industrially applicable conditions and producing copolymers with desired microstructures is a major step towards biocompatible polymers with tailor-made properties as alternatives for traditional plastics on the way towards a sustainable, circular material flow.
KW - Block Copolymers
KW - Caprolactone
KW - Glycolide
KW - Iron
KW - Lactide
KW - Random Copolymers
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U2 - 10.1002/anie.202112853
DO - 10.1002/anie.202112853
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C2 - 34984790
AN - SCOPUS:85124593358
SN - 1433-7851
VL - 61
JO - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
IS - 11
M1 - e202112853
ER -