A series of water-insoluble cyclodextrin polymers (CDP) was prepared by crosslinking β-cyclodextrin (CD) with polyethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (PEGDE). Similarly, a reference CDP was prepared using ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether (EGDE). Increasing the feed ratio of PEGDE to CD in the reaction mixture led to high degrees of crosslinking. Relaxation measurements revealed structural homogeneity among the CDPs, which exhibited mobilities that strongly depended on the chain lengths of the crosslinking agents. In addition, all the CDPs displayed high encapsulation abilities toward bisphenol A (BPA) in aqueous media. In particular, the CDP sample with a low degree of crosslinking by PEGDE showed the highest encapsulation ability toward BPA. In contrast, the CDP crosslinked by EGDE exhibited low encapsulation ability because its highly dense structure, which results from the short chain lengths of the crosslinking agents, hinders the penetration of BPA molecules.
The cyclopolymerizations of
(2S,5S)-1,2:5,6-diepoxyhexane using
BF3·OEt2 and
tert-BuOK
have been studied. The polymer yield and molecular weight of the
polymer using tert-BuOK were higher
than those using BF3·OEt2. For the
polymers using BF3·OEt2, the mole
fractions of the cyclized units
were 0.76−0.90, and the cyclic constitutional repeating units were
five- and six-membered rings. The
polymer using tert-BuOK essentially consisted of the
five-membered cyclic repeating unit.
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