Microwave Accelerated Polymerization of 2-Phenyl-2-oxazoline: Microwave or Temperature Effects?
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Hoogenboom, Richard; Leenen, Mark A. M.; Wiesbrock, Frank; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- Investigations regarding the cationic ring-opening
polymerization of 2-phenyl-2-oxazoline under microwave
irradiation and conventional heating are reported. This
study was inspired by contradictory reports of the (non-)-
existence of non-thermal microwave effects that might
accelerate the cationic ring-opening of 2-oxazolines. The
polymerization of 2-phenyl-2-oxazoline was investigated
under pressure in acetonitrile and under reflux (or at the boiling
point of butyronitrile in a closed vessel) in butyronitrile
utilizing a single-mode microwave reactor and automated
synthesis robots with conventional heating.
- Year:
- 2005
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Journal:
- Macromolecular Rapid Communications
- Volume:
- 26
- Pages:
- 1773 - 1778