Macromolecular Bioscience 2004-11-20

Novel biodegradable copolyesters containing blocks of poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate) and poly(epsilon-caprolactone): synthesis and characterization.

Laurianne Timbart, Estelle Renard, Valérie Langlois, Philippe Guerin

Index: Macromol. Biosci. 4 , 1014-1020, (2004)

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Abstract

Novel biodegradable polyester block copolymers have been synthesized by using well-defined poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate) (PHO) oligomers having a hydroxyl end group and an ester end group with M(n) values of 800, 2,500, 5,300, 8,000, or 20,000 as an elastomeric soft segment and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) as a more crystalline segment. These PHO oligomers prepared by methanolysis were subjected to block copolymerization with epsilon-caprolactone. The chemical structure of the copolymers was confirmed by (1)H NMR and (13)C NMR spectroscopy. All the copolyesters are semi-crystalline and two T(g) were observed by differential scanning calorimetry when the molecular weight of the PHO block is about 20,000.

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