Determination of Imides, Aromatic, Polyimides, Polyamides, and Poly (Amide-Imides) by Alkali Fusion Reaction Gas Chromatography

Schlueter, David D.; Siggia, Sidney.

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“…The analytical method has been studied and reported for the pyrolytic methylation of organic acids, the hydrazinolysis for the cleavage of PI and the derivatization of monomers, and the hydrolysis of PIs …”

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Monomer Determination of Polyamic Acids by Hydrolysis and Methanolysis, and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

Kim

Cho

2016

Bulletin Korean Chem Soc

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Polyimides (PIs) have attracted attention because of their excellent thermal stability, high mechanical properties, and good chemical resistance. 1 Hence, they have been widely used in many applications such as aerospace, microelectronics, and optoelectronics. [2][3][4][5] As most PIs are insoluble except soluble PIs, they are often formed by two-step processes involving the synthesis of polyamic acid (PAA) as a precursor of PI, followed by thermal dehydration of the amide-acid to form PI. In addition, PAA are formed by the condensation reaction of a diamine and a dianhydride in a polar aprotic solvent. 4,6 Many articles have been reported for the thermal behavior of PI film, 4,7 the surface modification of PI, 3,8 the fabrication analysis, 9,10 and the degree of imidization, 11,12 respectively. In general, PIs provide wide variations in technical properties according to their chemical structures. Therefore, it is important to achieve an adequate analytical method for the compositional analysis in manufacturing and benchmarking of PAAs.The analytical method has been studied and reported for the pyrolytic methylation of organic acids, 13,14 the hydrazinolysis for the cleavage of PI and the derivatization of monomers, 15,16 and the hydrolysis of PIs. 17 In this study, we describe a simple method for the determination of the monomer composition of PAAs. A gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) method using hydrolysis and methanolysis as the sample pre-treatment procedure was used to analyze diamine and dianhydride components of PAAs. In addition, results obtained from pyrolysis-GC/MC with tetramethylammonium salt as a derivatization reagent (React Py-GC/MS) were compared with the data from GC/MS method.To analyze the chemical composition of PAAs by GC/MS, hydrolysis and methanolysis were first performed for the cleavage of polymer chain and derivatization of the monomer. The overlaid total ion chromatogram (TIC) derived from GC/MS is shown in Figure 1, and the chemical structures identified are given in Table 1. A PAA can decompose into small molecules by treatment with sodium hydroxide for hydrolysis and acid-catalyzed methanol for methanolysis. Consequently, diamines and tetracarboxylic acid sodium salts were produced by hydrolysis, and ammonium sulfates of corresponding diamines and methyl esters of tetracarboxylic acid were produced by methanolysis. p-Phenylenediamine (PDA) and 4,4-oxydianiline (ODA) were detected as the diamine compounds from the hydrolysates of PAA-1 and PAA-2, and PDA was only detected in the hydrolysates of PAA-3 and PAA-4. After hydrolysis, all diamines detected were in the free form as monomers of PAA preparation. Hence, the analysis of hydrolysates was useful for the determination of the diamine composition of PAAs. In addition, any interfering components were absent in the GC/MS analysis. The tetracarboxylic acid compounds hydrolyzed from the polymer chain were converted to the corresponding carboxylic acid sodium salts in the basic hydrolysis solution. Thus, they were not extracte...

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Monomer Determination of Polyamic Acids by Hydrolysis and Methanolysis, and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

Kim

Cho

2016

Bulletin Korean Chem Soc

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“…An approach originally developed by Schlueter and Siggia , alkali fusion of polymers prior to chromatographic analysis has been shown to yield quantitative results by GC for a wide range of polymer types . Fusion of PI samples under alkali conditions can be performed readily with potassium hydroxide and the carboxylic acid, and diamine products are analysed typically by GC, but also by other techniques including CE with UV detection .…”

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Identification of polyimide materials using quantitative CE with UV and QTOF‐MS detection

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Polyimides (PIs) are a group of widely used synthetic materials that service a variety of different purposes including microelectronics, insulating films and aerospace applications. Depending on the requirements (defined by the particular final product), the actual composition of PIs may show substantial chemical variation. To study this variation in chemical structure, CE-MS can be employed for the determination of PI composition following chemical degradation of the polymer sample. PI is chemically decomposed to corresponding aromatic diamine and carboxylic acid components using an alkali fusion reaction. Solid polymer samples are fused in a potassium hydroxide melt yielding reaction products that are diluted in acid and can be immediately analysed by CE coupled to a Q/TOF-MS with quantification performed using conventional UV detection. This approach involves a simple and rapid sample preparation yielding both qualitative and quantitative information regarding the chemical composition of the polymer. Application of the CE-MS approach is shown for a range of commercially available PI and poly(amide-imide) materials and the results are used to infer the respective chemical compositions.

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Crompton

1998

Manual of Plastics Analysis

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Determination of Imides, Aromatic, Polyimides, Polyamides, and Poly (Amide-Imides) by Alkali Fusion Reaction Gas Chromatography

Abstract: The technique of alkali fusion reaction gas chromatography has been applied to the analysis of imide monomers and

Cited by 23 publications

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Monomer Determination of Polyamic Acids by Hydrolysis and Methanolysis, and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

Monomer Determination of Polyamic Acids by Hydrolysis and Methanolysis, and Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

Identification of polyimide materials using quantitative CE with UV and QTOF‐MS detection

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