Exclusive chemical conversions of polyesters [poly(ethylene adipate) (PEA), poly(butylene (PBA), poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), (PBT)] to the corresponding monomers (diethyl adipate, diethyl terephthalate, ethylene glycol, 1,4-butane diol) by transesterification with ethanol using Cp’TiCl3 (Cp’ = Cp, Cp*) catalyst have been demonstrated. The present acid-base-free depolymerizations exhibit...

A yellow, alkali-clearable azo disperse dye containing a carboxylic ester moiety was readily synthesized from the reactant p-aminobenzoic acid by successive diazotization, coupling reaction, chlorination and esterification with ethanol. Then its molecular structure was characterized by FTIR, H NMR, C NMR, mass spectrometry and elemental analysis. The synthesized dye and a similar control dye co...

Poly(trimethylene sulfide)eborane adduct has been used as an efficient borane reagent in hydroboration reactions to produce various organoboranes, which have then been used without isolation in further reactions that involve single, double and triple migrations of alkyl groups. The presence of the polymer causes no problems, but there are practical advantages associated with its use, including ...

This work encompasses the development of low-viscosity cyclic oligomer underfill formulations that cure without heat evolution. Boron nitride, silica-coated aluminum nitride, and alumina ceramic powders were used as fillers in cyclic butylene terephthalate oligomer melts. The melts were heated with a suitable catalyst to induce polymerization. The effects of the filler type and composition on t...

We describe the organocatalytic depolymerization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), using a commercially available guanidine catalyst, 1,5,7-triazabicyclo[4.4.0]dec-5-ene (TBD). Postconsumer PET beverage bottles were used and processed with 1.0 mol % (0.7 wt %) of TBD and excess amount of ethylene glycol (EG) at 190 C for 3.5 hours under atmospheric pressure to give bis(2-hydroxyethyl) tere...

Paclitaxel, a polyol chemotherapeutic agent, was covalently conjugated through its 2'-OH to polylactide with 100% regioselectivity via controlled polymerization of lactide mediated by paclitaxel/(BDI-II)ZnN(TMS)(2) (BDI-II = 2-((2,6-diisopropylphenyl)amino)-4-((2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imino)-2-pentene). The steric bulk of the substituents on the N-aryl groups of the BDI ligand drastically affecte...

Copoly(ethylene terephthalate-imide)s (PETIs) were synthesized by the melt copolycondensation of bis(2-hydroxyethyl)terephthalate with a new imide monomer, N,N9-bis[p-(2-hydroxyethoxycarbonyl)phenyl]-biphenyl-3,39,4,49-tetracarboxydiimide (BHEI). The copolymers were characterized by intrinsic viscosity, Fourier transform infrared, H NMR, differential scanning calorimetry, and thermogravimetric ...