Trityl Salt-Initiated Cationic Polymerization of 1,2-Cyclohexene Oxide: Structural Analyses of the Products

Abstract
The polymerization of 1,2-cyclohexene oxide was carried out at 0°C in dichloroethane with triphenylmethyl hexafluoroarsenate as the initiator. A typical reaction product (PCHO-1) was analyzed by infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy as well as by gel-permeation chromatography, x-ray diffraction, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The x-ray and DSC data show that PCHO-1 is an amorphous substance. The results of the NMR analyses show that the propagation step in the trityl salt-initiated polymerization obeys Bernoullian statistics with a Pm value of 0.38.

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