Precise molecular weight determination and structure characterization of end-functionalized polymers: An NMR approach via combination of one-dimensional and two-dimensional techniques

Chinese Journal of Polymer Science - Tập 35 - Trang 681-692 - 2017
Dong-xue Chen1, Ling-feng Gao1, Xiao-hong Li1, Ying-feng Tu1
1Suzhou Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Design and Precision Synthesis, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Novel Functional Polymeric Materials, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, China

Tóm tắt

We present here the application of one-dimensional and two-dimensional NMR techniques to characterize the structure of methoxyl end-functionalized polystyrenes (PS). The peaks in 1H-NMR spectra corresponding to main-chain, side-chain and chain-end groups are assigned by 1H-1H gCOSY, 1H-13C gHSQC and gHMBC spectra. For the first time, the spin-lattice relaxation time (T 1) of protons of the chain-ends is revealed to be affected more by polymer molecular weight (MW) than by the protons of the main-chains and the side-chains (almost independent from MW). As a result, a much higher delay time (d1) for chain-ends (d1 > 20T 1) is needed for quantitative NMR measurement when using end-group estimation method to obtain the MW of PS, which is in accordance with the value estimated by GPC. An improved method for the polymer MW determination is established, by combination of different NMR techniques to distinguish the peaks, and a large d1 setting to achieve quantitative NMR analysis.

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