Synthesis, morphology and crystallization kinetics of Polyheptalactone (PHL)

Maria Caputo; Asier Olmos; Bo Li; Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez; Anna Malafronte; Claudio De Rosa; Haritz Sardon; Rachel O'Reilly; Andrew Dove; Alejandro J. Müller

doi:10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00305

Synthesis, morphology and crystallization kinetics of Polyheptalactone (PHL)

Maria Caputo, Asier Olmos, Bo Li, Jorge L. Olmedo-Martínez, Anna Malafronte, Claudio De Rosa, Haritz Sardon, Rachel O'Reilly, Andrew Dove, Alejandro J. Müller^*

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Aliphatic polyesters are widely studied due to their excellent properties and low-cost production and also because, in many cases, they are biodegradable and/or recyclable. Therefore, expanding the range of available aliphatic polyesters is highly desirable. This paper reports the synthesis, morphology, and crystallization kinetics of a scarcely studied polyester, polyheptalactone (PHL). First, we synthesized the η-heptalactone monomer by the Baeyer–Villiger oxidation of cycloheptanone before several polyheptalactones of different molecular weights (in the range between 2 and 12 kDa), and low dispersities were prepared by ring-opening polymerization (ROP). The influence of molecular weight on primary nucleation rate, spherulitic growth rate, and overall crystallization rate was studied for the first time. All of these rates increased with PHL molecular weight, and they approached a plateau for the highest molecular weight samples employed here. Single crystals of PHLs were prepared for the first time, and hexagonal-shaped flat single crystals were obtained. The study of the crystallization and morphology of PHL revealed strong similarities with PCL, making PHLs very promising materials, considering their potential biodegradable character.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3256–3267
Number of pages	12
Journal	Biomacromolecules
Volume	24
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00305
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2023

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This work has received funding from the Basque Government through grant IT1503-22. The authors would also like to acknowledge the financial support from the BIODEST project; this project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 778092.

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aliphatic polyesters
biodegradable
polyheptalactone
ring-opening polymerization

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