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4(%3)3 - Ecole nationale supérieure de chimie de Montpellier

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temperature greater than 80 o C in less than 5 minutes of the system was <strong>de</strong>monstrated by size exclusionchromatography and ultra-violet spectroscopy.Figure – 1.25: Thermoreversible crosslinked Poly(methyl methacrylate) network formation via hetero Diels-Al<strong>de</strong>rreaction 150 .The high temperatures associated with rDA reactions may sometimes generate un<strong>de</strong>sirablebyproducts due to <strong>de</strong>composition of the polymer or any other reactant present in the system. Also asignificant emphasis has been put towards the <strong>de</strong>velopment of room temperature self-healing systems;therefore it is <strong>de</strong>sirable to reduce the required temperature for rDA reaction as low as possible tominimize the need of energy for the healing process and if possible a complete replacement of heatingprocedure itself. In view of this constraint, use of ultrasound as a tool to facilitate rDA reaction has beenproposed recently. In this work, poly(methyl acrylate)s (PMAs) of different molecular weights wereprepared from a Diels-Al<strong>de</strong>r adduct of maleimi<strong>de</strong> with furan containing two polymerization initiators.When subjected to ultrasound at 0 o C, the authors <strong>de</strong>monstrated the occurrence of rDA with gelpermeation chromatography (GPC), ultra-violet visible spectroscopy and chromophore labeling of theliberated maleimi<strong>de</strong> and furan moieties. However the no rDA reaction was observed for polymers withmolecular weight greater than 60 KDa and lesser than 20 KDa. Similar results were obtained foranalogous polymers that were prepared from a cycloaddition adduct initiators of maleimi<strong>de</strong> withanthracene. Driven by the same constraint, new class self-healing polymer films have been successfullyprepared by capitalizing over room temperature dynamic Diels-Al<strong>de</strong>r chemistry 151 . In this novel work byReutenauer et al, self standing thin films were casted from a mixture of bis(fulvene) andbis(tricyanoethylenecarboxylate) dynamers (Figure – 1.26a). To <strong>de</strong>monstrate the self-healing ability, thefilm was cut into two pieces and then the two pieces were pressed together with some overlapping. Inless than 10 seconds, the pieces could no longer be separated (Figure – 1.26b). This is in contrast withthe behavior shown by self-healing supramolecular elastomer which showed healing only between two30

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