Synthesis of Hydroxy-Functionalized Cyclic Olefin Copolymer and Its Block Copolymers with Semicrystalline Polyolefin Segments

摘要

Synthesis of hydroxy-functionalized cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) is achieved with remarkably high activity (up to 5.96 x 10(7) g-polymer mol-Ti-1 h(-1)) and controlled hydroxy group in a wide range (approximate to 17.1 mol%) by using ansa-dimethylsilylene (fluorenyl)(amido) titanium complex. The catalyst also promotes living/controlled copolymerization to afford novel diblock copolymers consisting of hydroxy-functionalized COC and semicrystalline polyolefin sequence such as polyethylene and syndiotactic polypropylene, where the glass transition temperature of the norbornene/10-undecen-1-ol segment and each block length are controlled by comonomer composition and copolymerization time, respectively.