Depolymerization of polymers and their use in thermoset compositions and composites
申请人:HERCULES INCORPORATED
公开号:EP0532893A2
公开(公告)日:1993-03-24
The present invention is a novel process of preparing a reactive reduced molecular weight polyarylene polyether from a starting polyarylene polyether, wherein said reduced molecular weight polyarylene polyether has a lower molecular weight than said starting polyarylene polyether. The process comprises the steps of first contacting said starting polyarylene polyether with a nucleophilic reagent for a period of time sufficient to reduce the molecular weight of said starting polyarylene polyether, and then recovering said reactive reduced molecular weight polyarylene polyether. The reactive reduced molecular weight polyarylenes produced by such process can be used in combination with various other resins. This process produces many novel reactive polyarylene polyethers represented by the formula
wherein Ar is a bivalent aromatic residue of a polyarylene polyether, Ar may vary within said reactive polyarylene polyether, at least a portion of Ar comprises an aromatic ether or an aromatic thioether group that is ortho or para in position to at least one S02 group; E represents reactive groups having at least one reactive site, that are located at chain termini, along a chain, or both; z is the number average reactive sites per chain, 0.1 < z < 10., and n is the number average repeating units ArS02.
本发明是一种从起始聚芳醚制备反应性降低分子量聚芳醚的新工艺,其中所述降低分子量聚芳醚的分子量低于所述起始聚芳醚的分子量。该工艺包括以下步骤:首先将所述起始聚芳基聚醚与亲核试剂接触一段时间,足以降低所述起始聚芳基聚醚的分子量,然后回收所述反应性降低分子量聚芳基聚醚。通过这种工艺生产的活性减分子量聚芳醚可与其他各种树脂结合使用。该工艺可生产出许多新型活性聚芳醚,其式如下
其中 Ar 是聚芳基聚醚的二价芳香族残基,Ar 在所述反应性聚芳基聚醚中可能不同,Ar 的至少一部分包括芳香族醚或芳香族硫醚基团,该基团与至少一个 S02 基团在位置上为正交或对位;E 代表具有至少一个反应位点的反应性基团,该基团位于链末端、沿链或两者兼有;z 是每条链的平均反应位点数,0.1 < z < 10;n 是 ArS02 的平均重复单元数。