STEREOSELECTIVE ALTERNATING COPOLYMERIZATION OF EPOXIDE WITH CARBON DIOXIDE

摘要

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing polycarbonate, which has a high conversion rate of a propylene oxide material into a polymer and can control stereoregularity of the macromolecular structure, and a catalytic compound for the manufacturing method.;The manufacturing method of the present invention is a method for manufacturing a polycarbonate copolymer by copolymerizing an epoxide compound as a monomer with carbon dioxide in the presence of a planar tetracoordinate-type cobalt-Schiff base complex, wherein a ligand of the Schiff base is N,N′-bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)ethylenediamine, N,N′-bis(2-hydroxybenzylidene)phenylenediamine, or a derivative thereof, and a methyl group substituted with an amino group having an asymmetrical carbon atom or an asymmetrical axis is introduced to the 3- and/or 3′-position of the benzene ring derived from the salicyl group. In addition, the catalytic compound of the present invention is a cobalt-Schiff base complex, wherein a methyl group substituted with an amino group having an asymmetrical carbon atom or an asymmetrical axis is introduced to the 3- and/or 3′-position of the salicyl group.