A facile approach towards high-performance poly(thioether-thioester)s with full recyclability

作     者：Jiang Dai Wei Xiong Mu-Rong Du Gang Wu Zhongzheng Cai Jian-Bo Zhu 

作者机构：National Engineering Laboratory of Eco-Friendly Polymeric Materials(Sichuan)College of ChemistrySichuan UniversityChengdu 610064China 

出 版 物：《Science China Chemistry》 (中国科学（化学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第66卷第1期

页      面：251-258页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070303[理学-有机化学] 0703[理学-化学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFA1501700) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51903177,U19A2095) the“1000-Youth Talents Program” the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(YJ201924,YJ202209)。 

主　　题：chemically recyclable polymer plastic polythioester ring-opening polymerization mercury adsorption 

摘      要：Developing new chemically recyclable polymers is important for a circular plastics economy.Herein,we prepared a class of 1,4-dithian-2-one(DTO)with thioether and thioester functionalities.These sulfur-substituted monomers(DTO)showed excellent reactivity for ring-opening polymerization(turnover frequency(TOF)up to 2.3×10^(4)h^(-1)),which afforded poly(thioetherthioester)s(P(DTO)s)with high air stability,high crystallinity,and commercial high-density polyethylene-like mechanical property(σB=29.59±1.08 MPa andεB=749%±36%).Intriguingly,chemical recycling of P(DTO)to monomer could be accomplished with excellent efficiency in dilute solution(1 min)at room temperature or even from a commodity plastic waste mixture under catalyst-free thermal bulk condition(180°C),thus establishing its circular life cycle.P(Me-DTO)could be applied for selective removal of Hg^(2+)with99%removal efficiency.More importantly,Me-DTO could be recovered in high yield after utilization for Hg^(2+)adsorption.