以三枝化低不饱和度聚环氧丙烷(PPO)引发D-丙交酯(D—LA)逐步开环聚合,合成了三枝化聚环氧丙烷-聚右旋乳酸(PPO—PDLA)共聚物.用辛酸亚锡Sn(Oct)2与PPO—PDLA端羟基反应进行Sn(Oct)封端,制备了三枝化PPO—PDLA—Sn(Oct)预聚物.再于130℃下,以其作为大分子引发剂与L-丙交酯(L-LA)开环聚合,合成了分子量〉10^5的三枝化PPO—PDLA—PLLA嵌段共聚物.活性端基的引入,降低了聚合反应温度,从而降低了聚合中的酯交换或热降解反应发生的概率.实现了高分子量PPO—PDLA—PLLA嵌段共聚物的合成.结构测试结果表明,合成的嵌段共聚物具有分子结构易控及立构规整度高等特点.在结晶一熔融一再结晶重复热处理下,三枝化PPO—PDLA—PLLA嵌段共聚物仅发生立构复合聚乳酸结晶,且结晶能力稳定.
Three-arm poly (propylene oxide) (PPO) was used as a macroinitiator for the ring-opening polymerization(ROP) of D-lactide to obtain three-arm poly (propylene oxide)-block-poly (D-lactic acid)( PPO- PDLA). PPO-PDLA eopolymer was then reacted with stannous octoate [Sn(Oct) 2 ] to obtain Sn(Oct) end- capped PPO-PDLA [ PPO-PDLA-Sn (Oct) ]. The PPO-PDLA-Sn (Oct) can be used as an efficient macroinitiator for the ROP of L-lactide to synthesize three-arm PPO-PDLA-PLLA at 130 ℃, which reduces the occurrence of hydrolysis and transesterification reaction. PPO-PDLA-PLLA copolymers with high molecular weight were synthesized by this novel and simple method. The results show that the composite of PPO-PDLA-PLLA can be easily tuned by controlling the feed ratio of L-lactide and D-lactide, and the stereoregularity of PPO-PDLA- PLLA is high. Moreover, the stereocomplexes of PPO-PDLA-PLLA can survive melting to reform the stereocomplex crystallites.