
Chem & Bio Engineering, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 1(6), P. 559 - 567
Published: June 3, 2024
Transferring abundant, inexpensive, and nontoxic carbon dioxide (CO2) into biodegradable polymers is one of the ideal ways to promote sustainable development. Although a great deal preeminent researches has been reported in last decade, including well-designed organometallic complexes, Lewis pairs, etc. The moisture- air-sensitive nature these extensively used catalysts preclude their use industrial applications. Herein, we report novel stable catalyst system commercial zinc glutarate (ZnGA) with supported metal for synthesis poly(ester-b-carbonate). special microstructure facilitates efficient polymerizations via plausible heterometal coordination mechanism. Notably, resulted CO2-based copolymer showed strong tensile strength (>40 MPa), improved elongation (45% versus 7%), excellent transmittance, low water vapor permeability (WVP) (1.7 × 10-11 g m-1 s-1 Pa-1). Moreover, ZnGA recyclable, its simple low-cost preparation process compatible manufacturing processing methods existing infrastructure.
Language: Английский