One-Pot Polyimide Synthesis in Carboxylic Acid Medium

Abstract

The melts of aromatic carboxylic acids such as benzoic acid (BA) at 130–160 °C were shown to be excellent media for the one-pot synthesis of high molecular weight, completely cyclicized polyetherimides (PEIs) from the corresponding diamines and tetracarboxylic acid dianhydrides. According to the data on the cyclodehydratation (CD) kinetics of oligomeric amic acid model compounds, the rate of cyclicization of transient polyamic acids in BA at 140 °C is very high, and the polymer chain growth proceeds via the polyaddition of completely cyclicized PEI oligomers with amino and anhydride end groups. Tetracarboxylic acids in BA at 140 °C were shown to react with aromatic diamines to obtain high molecular weight PEIs as well as the corresponding dianhydrides. The effect of the total concentration of comonomers and the presence of an ‘inert’ diluent on the kinetics of the growth of the inherent viscosity in the polycyclocondensation of diamines and dianhydrides is discussed from the point of view of the mechanism of the process. The prospect of a novel synthetic approach in polyimide synthesis is discussed, including obtaining new homopolyimides based on extremely-low-reactivity monomers; new statistical, regular, alternating copolyimides and block copolyimides; two-component blends with one glass transition point, and PEIs based on AB-type heteromonomers.

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