Fully Isotactic Poly(p‑methylstyrene):
Precise Synthesis via Catalytic Polymerization and Crystallization
Studies
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The
synthesis of stereoregular styrenic polymers on single-site catalysts
has received great attention over the last decades; however, little
is known with respect to tailoring fully isotactic poly(p-methylstyrene) (iPpMS). Here, we demonstrate that
isospecific coordination polymerization of p-methylstyrene
can be achieved in the presence of the catalyst dichloro[1,4-dithiabutanediyl-2,20-bis(4,6-di-tert-butyl-phenoxy)]titanium activated by methylaluminoxane.
Moreover, iPpMS has been assumed to be noncrystallizable
for decades, as X-ray diffraction and differential scanning calorimeter
measurements of powder samples failed to reveal a well-defined crystal
structure. However, we successfully generated dendritic crystals of
iPpMS from dilute solutions by carefully controlling
the evaporation rate of the solvent. The crystal morphology was studied
by optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy. In situ heating
experiments of dendritic crystals allowed us to measure the melting
temperature of iPpMS crystals. Moreover, a vapor
annealing process was carried out to prepare multilamellar crystals
for small-angle X-ray scattering measurements to characterize the
spacing and orientation of the formed crystalline lamellae.
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Wu, Tianyu; Valencia, Luis; Pfohl, Thomas; Heck, Barbara; Reiter, Günter; Lutz, Pierre J.; et al. (2019). Fully Isotactic Poly(p‑methylstyrene):
Precise Synthesis via Catalytic Polymerization and Crystallization
Studies. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00640
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AUTHORS (7)
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Tianyu Wu
LV
Luis Valencia
TP
Thomas Pfohl
BH
Barbara Heck
GR
Günter Reiter
PL
Pierre J. Lutz
RM
Rolf Mülhaupt