Kemin Wang,Yuhui Lu,Penghui Chen,Jingsong Shi,Hongning Wang,Qiang Yu
Benzophenone (BP) is a common initiator which is often used in the UV-curing production and related fields. However, the shortcomings such as toxicity, odor, and migration always limit the development of the traditional BP photoinitiator . Polymeric benzophenone photoinitiator (PEG-BP) was synthesized basing on polyethylene glycol (PEG), succinic anhydride , 4-hydroxybenzophenone and epichlorohydrin . The structure of PEG-BP was characterized by IR and 1 H NMR. The radiation absorption of PEG-BP was detected by UV spectrophotometer with the maximum absorption wavelength at 283 nm in acetonitrile solvent, undergone significant redshift corresponding to small molecule photoinitiator BP, thus enhanced the photosensitive efficiency of UV-curing system in the long wavelength region. Besides, PEG-BP has better water solubility than BP, thus could be used in both oil and aqueous solution. The obvious advantage of this initiator was the elimination of amine based hydrogen donors and to provide alternative hydrogen donors with easily availability and non-toxicity. The effects of molecular weights of PEG-BP, photoinitiator concentration, UV-radiation intensity and different monomers on photopolymerization kinetics were investigated in detail. The synthesized polymeric photoinitiators are attractive to be used as type II photoinitiators.
Wei Peng,Jianmei Xie,Junying Zhang,Xia Yang,Aihua He
The isoprene polymerization kinetics by using TiCl 4 /MgCl 2 type Ziegler-Natta catalysts (TMC) with different titanium contents were studied for better understanding the possible active-specie structures of heterogeneous Ziegler-Natta (Z-N) catalysts for conjugated diene polymerizations. The catalytic features including the catalytic activity (CA), number of active centers ([C*]/[Ti]), rate constant for polymerization (k p ), stereoregularity of these TMC catalysts were studied. The low titanium content catalyst TMC-1 (Ti = 0.09 wt.%) with more isolated mononuclear titanium species showed higher CA and yielded cis-1,4-/trans-1,4- mixed microstructure polyisoprene with low molecular weight ( M w ) in the initial polymerization stage. The medium high titanium content catalyst TMC-2 (Ti = 2.38 wt.%) with more clustered mononuclear titanium species showed lower CA and yielded cis-1,4-/trans-1,4- mixed microstructure polyisoprene with high M w in the early stage of polymerization. The high titanium content catalyst TMC-3 (Ti = 3.76 wt.%) presented lowest CA and yielded high trans-1,4- polyisoprene with higher M w .