Tutorials 1 for principles of polymerizations course
Michel Bouquey
Exercice 1: polyaddition reaction
We consider the reaction between butane diol (BD) and toluene diisocyanate (TDI)
1 – a: Write the chemical structure of the repeat unit and the ends of the chains which are
possible to obtain depending on the stoechiometric ratio.
1 – b: What is the name of this polymer family?
1 – c: Determine the molar mass of the repeat unit
1 – d: What is the relation between the number of repeat units (n) and the degree of
polymerization (DP
n
) according to the stoechiometric ratio ? For each case, determine the
expression of the mean molar mass (
𝑀
𝑛
̅̅̅̅ ) in function of n.
2 – We want to synthezise 50g of this polymer with 3 different mean molar masses in number:
𝑀
𝑛,1
̅̅̅̅̅̅ = 6500 𝑔/𝑚𝑜𝑙 ; 𝑀
𝑛,2
̅̅̅̅̅̅ = 13200 𝑔/𝑚𝑜𝑙 et 𝑀
𝑛,3
̅̅̅̅̅̅ = 21400 𝑔/𝑚𝑜𝑙.
We work with the same number of isocyanate and alcool functions.
Calculate for each case the mean degree of polymerization.
To deduce:
2 – a: the number of functions used in each reactions
2 – b: The extent p of the reaction to achieve the goals
2 – c: The quantities (g) of diol and diisocyanate to introduce in the reactor
Considering now that we work out of stoechiometric function (number of isocyanate and
alcool functions is different) try to answer again to questions 2a, 2b and 2c
M
1
= 90 g/mol
M
2
= 174 g/mol
HO
OH
NCO
OCN