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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2009
Haci Bayram Erdem, Akron, OH (US);
Frank Wayne Harris, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Haci Bayram Erdem, Akron, OH (US);
Frank Wayne Harris, Boca Raton, FL (US);
The University of Akron, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
The manufacture of polyetherquinoxalines may be accomplished by polymerization of quinoxaline and related monomers with a bisphenol under aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction conditions. A method of manufacture includes contacting a substituted or unsubstituted quinoxaline having replaceable groups at the 2,3 positions with a bisphenol or a bisphenol derivative under aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction conditions. The resulting polyetherquinoxalines contain quinoxaline groups joined by ether linkages at the 2 and 3 positions of the quinoxaline groups. In one example, the polyetherquinoxaline has a formula represented as wherein 'n' is an integer from 1 to 10000, and R, R, R, Rare independently hydrogen, methyl, CF, tert-butyl, benzoyl, benzenesulfonyl, a sulfonic acid salt, an aliphatic group, an alicyclic group, or an aryl group, and Ar is an aromatic radical. These melt-processable polyetherquinoxalines can be prepared under relatively mild conditions, have excellent thermal and mechanical properties, and are organo-soluble, transparent and colorless thermoplastics.