Living Polycondensation: Synthesis of Well-Defined Aromatic Polyamide-Based Polymeric Materials
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ThesisAuthors
Alyami, Mram Z.
Advisors
Hadjichristidis, Nikos
Committee members
Rodionov, Valentin
Nunes, Suzana Pereira

Program
Chemical ScienceKAUST Department
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) DivisionDate
2016-11Embargo End Date
2017-11-24Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/621874
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Chain growth condensation polymerization is a powerful tool towards the synthesis of well-defined polyamides. This thesis focuses on one hand, on the synthesis of well-defined aromatic polyamides with different aminoalkyl pendant groups with low polydispersity and controlled molecular weights, and on the other hand, on studying their thermal properties. In the first project, well-defined poly (N-octyl-p-aminobenzoate) and poly (N-butyl-p-aminobenzoate) were synthesized, and for the first time, their thermal properties were studied. In the second project, ethyl4-aminobenzoate, ethyl 4-octyl aminobenzoate and 4-(hydroxymethyl) benzoic acid were used as novel efficient initiators of ε-caprolactone with t-BuP2 as a catalyst. Macroinitiator and Macromonomer of poly (ε-caprolactone) were synthesized with ethyl 4-octyl aminobenzoate and ethyl 4-aminobenzoate as initiators to afford polyamide-block-poly (ε-caprolactone) and polyamide-graft-poly (ε-caprolactone) by chain growth condensation polymerization (CGCP). In the third project, a new study has been done on chain growth condensation polymerization to discover the probability to synthesize new polymers and studied their thermal properties. For this purpose, poly (N-cyclohexyl-p-aminobenzoate) and poly (N-hexyl-p-aminobenzoate) were synthesized with low polydispersity and controlled molecular weights.Citation
Alyami, M. Z. (2016). Living Polycondensation: Synthesis of Well-Defined Aromatic Polyamide-Based Polymeric Materials. KAUST Research Repository. https://doi.org/10.25781/KAUST-1SQ9Uae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
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