EXPERIMENTAL-DETERMINATION OF SEQUENCE LENGTH DISTRIBUTION OF HARD SEGMENTS IN POLYESTER POLYURETHANES

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 1994

Authors

barreiro, mf (Author) Other; dias, rcs (Author) Other; costa, mrn (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Macromolecules

Vol. 27

Pages: 7650-7653

ISSN: 0024-9297

Publisher: American Chemical Society

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Chemical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-001-J6J

DOI: 10.1021/ma00104a020

Abstract (EN): A new analytical procedure based on selective acid hydrolysis was developed to measure the chain length distribution of hard segments(HSCLD) of polyester-polyurethanes. It was tested with polymers made from 4,4'-methylenebis(phenyl isocyanate), 1,6-hexanediol, and alpha,omega-dihydroxypoly-(hexamethylene adipate) with number-average molecular weight 2200. Heating samples with 0.25 M HCl solution in dimethyl sulfoxide with 8.2% water for 36 h leads to nearly complete hydrolysis of the ester groups, leaving the urethanes largely unaffected. The resulting mixture of oligomers can be analyzed by size exclusion chromatography, using dimethylformamide at room temperature as the solvent. Experimentally measured HSCLDs were most often very different from those theoretically predicted for homogeneous reaction.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4