Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas <italic style="font-style: italic">via</italic> Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates

Hao-Tian Zhang; Ming-Xin Niu; Qi Zhang; Chen-Yang Hu; Xuan Pang

doi:10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6

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Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates

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- Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates
- Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates
- 高分子科学（英文版） 2024年42卷第3期页码：292-298
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
  b.Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130025, China
  c.School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- Author bio：
  
  cyhu@ciac.ac.cn
- Funds：
  
  This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021YFA1501700), the Science and Technology Development Plan of Jilin Province (Nos. 20230101042JC and 20210201059GX), Basic Science Center Program (No. 51988102), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52203017 and 52073272).;Electronic supplementary information (ESI) is available free of charge in the online version of this article at http://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6.
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6
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- 收稿：2023-07-31，
  
  修回：2023-8-26，
  
  录用：2023-8-28，
  
  网络首发：2023-09-27，
  
  纸质出版：2024-03-01
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Zhang, H. T.; Niu, M. X.; Zhang, Q.; Hu, C. Y.; Pang, X. Facile synthesis of polyisothioureas via alternating copolymerization of aziridines and isothiocayanates. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2024, 42, 292–298

Hao-Tian Zhang, Ming-Xin Niu, Qi Zhang, et al. Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2024, 42(3): 292-298. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6.
Zhang, H. T.; Niu, M. X.; Zhang, Q.; Hu, C. Y.; Pang, X. Facile synthesis of polyisothioureas via alternating copolymerization of aziridines and isothiocayanates. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2024, 42, 292–298 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6.

Hao-Tian Zhang, Ming-Xin Niu, Qi Zhang, et al. Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2024, 42(3): 292-298. DOI: 10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6. DOI：

摘要

Polyisothiourea is an interesting polymer to potentially exhibit numerious properties. Herein we report the first facile synthesis of polyisothioureas via alternating copolymerization of aziridines and isothiocayanates. Mediated by the catalytic system of phosphazene superbases/alcohol

a broad scope of aziridines and isothiocayanates could be transformed into well-defined polyisothioureas (11 examples).

Abstract

Isothiourea is an important class of sulfur-containing molecules showing unique catalytic and biological activities. As such

polyisothiourea is envisioned to be an interesting type of polymer that potentially exhibits a number of interesting properties. However

there is no access to synthesizing well-defined polyisothiourea

and currently isothiourea-containing polymers are mainly prepared by immobilizing onto other polymer’s side chain. Herein

we report the first facile synthesis of polyisothioureas

via

alternating copolymerization of aziridines and isothiocayanates. Mediated by the catalytic system of phosphazene superbases/alcohol

a broad scope of aziridines and isothiocayanates could be transformed into polyisothioureas with adjustable substitutions (11 examples). The structures of obtained polyisothioureas were fully characterized with

H-NMR

C-NMR

and

H-

C HMBC NMR. Moreover

the polyisothioureas show tunable thermal properties depending on substitutions on the isothiourea linkages. The novel structure of these polyisothioureas will enable a powerful platform for the discovery of next-generation functional plastics.

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Facile Synthesis of Polyisothioureas via Alternating Copolymerization of Aziridines and Isothiocayanates

DOI：10.1007/s10118-023-3048-6

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