Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry ›› 1995, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (6): 59-61.

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Polymerization of ε-Captolactone and Lactide with Rare Earth Acetylacetonates

Liu Jianfei, Shen Zhiquan, Sun Junquan   

  1. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027
  • Received:1994-12-27 Revised:1995-05-03 Published:1995-12-10 Online:1995-12-10

Abstract: It is found that rare earth acetylacetonates can initiate the ring-opening polymer-ization of ε-caprolactone and lactide.The effects of temperature solvent,polymerizationtime,rare earth element and ligand were studied.The results showed that rare earth acety-lacetonates,particularly Y(acac)3,were good catalysts for the polymerization of ε-caprolac-tone and lactide, Crystalline polycaprolactone with viscosity-average molecular weight of 1.4×105 could be obtained at 80℃ in quantitative yield.

Key words: ε-caprolactone, lactide, rare earth acetylacetonate, ring-opening polymerization