To solve environmental pollution by barely biodegradable polyolefin wastes, unsaturated aliphatic polyesters, as one of biodegradable polymers, are of universal interest because of their good biocompatibility and easy post-polymerization modification with unsaturated carbon-carbon bond. However, the needed catalytic systems often play a crucial role in copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides. Herein, new catalysts are designed and used for the ring-opening copolymerization of epoxides and anhydrides, aiming at developing new route and technology to get unsaturated aliphatic polyester products.In this thesis, two series of symmetric Schiff-base-Zn(Ⅱ)-Ln(Ⅲ) and asymmetric Schiff-base-Zn(Ⅱ) catalysts are synthesized and characterized by EA, FT-IR,1H NMR and XRD, from which symmetric Schiff base-Zn(Ⅱ)-Ln(Ⅲ) hetero-binuclear catalysts [L-Zn-Ln, Ln=La, Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Er, Yb] with different active metal ions and the asymmetric Schiff base-Zn(Ⅱ) catalysts [Ln-Zn, n=1~5] with different electronic and steric effects are used for ring-opening copolymerization of cyclohexene oxide (CHO) with maleic anhydride (MA). Specific results are as follows:(1) Unsaturated aliphatic polyesters Poly[CHO-MA] are obtained, their number-average molecular weights (Mn, g/mol) are in the range of103~104and their polydispersity distribution indexes (PDI) are about1.5.(2) With rare earth metal ions of [L-Zn-Ln] catalysts varying by the sequence of Nd, Eu, Gd, Tb, Er, Yb, Mn of the copolymers successively reduce (12636-6065g/mol) from the solution copolymerization of CHO with MA. Solution copolymerization of CHO and MA catalyzed by L-Zn-Nd in presence of co-catalyst of DMAP gives the better catalytic behaviors, where the catalytic activity is1960g/mol-1h-1; Mn is15544g/mol and the PDI is1.51on the optimum conditions of polymerization time of300min, polymerization temperature of110℃and the molar ratio [CHO:MA:L-Zn-Nd:DMAP] of250:250:1:1.(3) The catalytic activity sequence of [Ln-Zn] in the ring-opening copolymerization of CHO with MA is:①l1-Zn <L4-Zn <L5-Zn;②L2-Zn <L3-Zn. Copolymerization of CHO with MA catalyzed by [Ln-Zn] also show the favorable results with the catalytic activity of5360g/mol-1h-1; Mn of11284g/mol and PDI of1.60on the optimum conditions, such as solution polymerization, L5-Zn/DMAP, toluene; polymerization time of150min, polymerization temperature of110℃and the molar ratio [CHO:MA:L5-Zn:DMAP:CTA (benzyl alcohol)] of250:250:1:1:8. |