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Journal of Materials Chemistry

The copolymerization reactivity of diols with 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid for furan-based copolyester materials†

Jiping Ma,abc   Yi Pang,*a   Min Wang,bc   Jie Xu,*b   Hong Mab  and  Xin Nieb  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA
E-mail: yp5@uakron.edu

b Dalian National Lab for Clean Energy, State Key Laboratory of Catalysis, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, P. R. China
E-mail: xujie@dicp.ac.cn
Fax: (+86)-411-84379245

c Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Abstract

Furan-based copolyesters were synthesized via polytransesterification of 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) with ethylene glycol (EG) and 1,4-butylene glycol (BG). The composition and thermal properties of the obtained copolyesters were characterized in detail by 1H NMR and elemental analysis, differential scanning calorimeters (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The 1H NMR results showed that the ethylene segment content was consistently lower than that of butylene in the obtained copolyesters in comparison with the comonomer feeds. The reactivities of EG and BG with FDCA were intensively investigated. On the basis of kinetic studies, EG was found to be less reactive than BG. The thermal properties of the obtained copolyesters could be adjusted by variation of the EG/BG molar ratios in the copolyesters.

Graphical abstract: The copolymerization reactivity of diols with 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid for furan-based copolyester materials

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2JM15457A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
26 Oct 2011
Accepted
24 Nov 2011
First published
12 Jan 2012

J. Mater. Chem., 2012,22, 3457-3461

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The copolymerization reactivity of diols with 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid for furan-based copolyester materials

J. Ma, Y. Pang, M. Wang, J. Xu, H. Ma and X. Nie, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 3457 DOI: 10.1039/C2JM15457A

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