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| Author(s): |
Fabio Fabri
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Química |
| Defense date: | 2006-02-23 |
| Examining board members: |
Ulf Friedrich Schuchardt;
Osvaldo de Lazaro Casagrande Junior;
José Augusto Rosário Rodrigues
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| Advisor: | Wanda de Oliveira; Ulf Friedrich Schuchardt |
| Abstract | |
The samarium(III) complex, CpSm(DIPPh)Br, was synthesized from samarium(III) bromide using cyclopentadienyl (Cp) and 2-(2,6- diisopropylphenyl)aminopent-2-en-4-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imine, (DIPPh), as ligands. The complex was characterized by UV-vis spectroscopy, atomic emission spectroscopy by induced coupled plasma to determine the metal content and argentimetry to determine de bromide content. The complex was tested in the polymerization of methyl methacrylate using the catalytic system generated by addition of butyl lithium at a butyl lithium/complex molar ratio of two. Essays were carried out to investigate the influence of monomer/catalyst molar ratio, temperature, and time dependence of the polymerization. The best conditions found for the polymerization of methyl methacrylate were: temperature of reaction: 0°C; monomer/catalyst molar ratio: 100 and time of polymerization: 1 h. The polymers were characterized by H and C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Conversions of up to 96 % and molar masses (Mn) in order of 25,000 g.mol were obtained, with molar mass distributions lower than 1.4. An increase of the monomer/catalyst molar ratio was observed to promote an increase of the stereoselectivity, producing polymers with isotacticity of 66 % (AU) | |