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Understanding the Stereochemical Effect on the Properties of Emerging Thermosets: Sustainable Polybenzoxazines
N. Amarnath, S. Mukherjee,
Published in American Chemical Society
2021
Abstract
Exploration of the properties of monomers by modulating their stereochemistry is not well reported in polybenzoxazines (PBzs). Isosorbide contains a rigid bicyclic (endo-exo-configuration) core that has shown promise in high-performance thermoplastic polymers. In this report, new chiral PBzs were prepared from industrially available feedstocks, carbohydrate-derived (isosorbide), and lignin- or cashew nut waste-sourced renewable phenols (cardanol and guaiacol). A fully biobased benzoxazine monomer based on a one-step condensation reaction of isosorbide diamine (isa) with phenols was carried out for 15 min under microwave and solvent- and catalyst-free conditions. Structural elucidation of monomers was achieved by two-dimensional (2D) NMR spectroscopy [heteronuclear single quantum correlation (HSQC) and COSY (correlated spectroscopy)]. The "isa"-based monomer revealed a comparable ring-opening polymerization temperature and a good processing window for the widely available bisphenol-A/aniline-based monomer. The resultant polymers showed a higher Tg, better thermomechanical properties, and adhesive strength compared to other classical petrobased PBzs. The current work extends the importance of the major component of the sugar-derived isohexide family member, isosorbide, in polybenzoxazine chemistry and suggests that stereocontrol in the monomer is another approach to affect the thermomechanical properties of this upcoming class of high-performance phenolic polymer. © 2021 American Chemical Society.
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