PROCESSES FOR THE PREPARATION OF MONODISPERSE POLYMERS, PROCESSES FOR THE CONTINUOUS POLYMERIZATION OF CYCLIC MONOMERS, AND POLYMERS PREPARED THEREBY

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for preparing lactone polymers, carbonate polymers, lactone-carbonate block copolymers and lactone-carbonate random copolymers via a ring-opening addition reaction of a lactone monomer, a cyclic carbonate monomer or a mixture thereof using an initiator and in the presence of a specific titanium-type Lewis acid catalyst. The resulting polymers have a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) approximately equal to 1 or a extremely high purity of single-structure components. The polymer molecules range in an oligomer region to a molecular weight of approximately 200,000. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing lactone polymers, carbonate polymers and lactone-carbonate copolymers having a narrow molecular weight distribution and which can be obtained via a continuous polymerisation of a lactone monomer and/or a cyclic carbonate monomer using an initiator in an extruder in the presence of a specific titanium-type Lewis acid catalyst or an aluminium-type Lewis acid catalyst. The present invention also relates to these resulting polymers.