SYNTHESIS OF POLYISOBUTYLENE WITH SEC-ARYLAMINO TERMINAL GROUP BY COMBINATION OF CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION WITH ALKYLATION

The highly reactive polyisobutylenes (PIBs) with α-double bonds (87.5 mol%) or tert-chloro (tert-Cl) groups (95 mol%) could be prepared via the cationic polymerization of isobutylene (IB) coinitiated by BF3 or TiCl4 respectively. The Friedel-Crafts alkylation of diphenylamine (DPA) with the highly reactive PIB with α-double bonds was further conducted under different conditions, such as at different alkylation temperature, in the mixed solvents of CH2Cl2/n-hexane with different solvent polarity and at DPA concentration ([DPA]). The resultant PIBs with sec-arylamino terminal groups were characterized by GPC with RI/UV dual detectors and 1H-NMR spectrum. The experimental results indicated that alkylation efficiency increased with increases in reaction temperature, solvent polarity and [DPA]. The 77 mol% of sec-arylamino terminated PIBs could be obtained in 10/90 (V/V) mixture of nHex/CH2Cl2 with [DPA]/[PIB] of 3.0 at 60°C for 45 h. Moreover, the alkylation of DPA with highly reactive PIBs with mainly tert-C...