Polymer Chemistry 2018-04-09

Scope and Limitations of Ring-Opening Copolymerization of Trimethylene Carbonate with Substituted γ-Thiolactones

Marvin Langlais, Olivier Coutelier, Sébastien Moins, Julien De Winter, Olivier Coulembier, Mathias Destarac

Index: 10.1039/C8PY00127H

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Abstract

Functional (co)polymers are increasingly developed by ring-opening polymerization of functional cyclic esters and cyclic carbonates for a wide range of applications. Following this trend and aiming to challenge the polymerization of γ-thiolactones, we studied the ring-opening copolymerization of functional γ-thiolactones with trimethylene carbonate in order to prepare new poly(carbonate-co-thioester)s with phosphonated or fluorinated pendant groups.