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Cyclic Oligomers of Polycarbonates and Polyesters

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Cyclic Polymers

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Recent chemistry has been developed for the efficient preparation of oligomeric cyclic esters and carbonates. The current techniques have made it possible to prepare hundreds of kilograms of the cyclic oligomers per batch, and have made these materials available for study. Both methods of synthesis have been studied mechanistically. Purification to polymerization quality has been simply achieved in both cases, with selective reactions for removal of linear oligomers. The cyclic oligomers melt at 130–180°C (polyesters) or 180–200°C (polycarbonates), and have melt viscosities about 4 orders of magnitude lower than the parent high molecular weight polymers. Polymerization of the cyclic oligomers has been achieved with a variety of initiators, and using various techniques. Polymerization can be complete within minutes, and leads to very high molecular weight polyesters or polycarbonates without formation of byproducts, and with essentially no exotherm. The ring opening chemistry facilitates a variety of new copolymer reactions, and has made the fabrication of composite structures with very high fiber loadings possible.

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Brunelle, D.J. (2000). Cyclic Oligomers of Polycarbonates and Polyesters. In: Semlyen, J.A. (eds) Cyclic Polymers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47117-5_6

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