Winters, Jonas;Bolia, Raheed;Dehaen, Wim;Binnemans, Koen published 《Synthesis of polyaramids in γ-valerolactone-based organic electrolyte solutions》 in 2021. The article was appeared in 《Green Chemistry》. They have made some progress in their research.Reference of 3-(4-Aminophenoxy)aniline The article mentions the following:
The current synthetic procedures for polyaramids mainly involve the use of amide solvents such as N-methylpyrrolidone and N,N-dimethylacetamide. However, these solvents are suspected to be teratogenic and are considered ‘Substances of Very High Concern’ by the European Commission. Here we propose a benign alternative solvent system: an Organic Electrolyte Solution (OES) consisting of γ-valerolactone (GVL) and a small amount of the ionic liquid 1-methyl-3-octylimidazolium chloride, [C8MIm][Cl]. Three com. relevant polyaramids were synthesized: poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide (PPTA), poly-m-phenylene isophthalamide (PMIA) and copoly(p-phenylene/3,4′-diphenylether terephthalamide) (ODA/PPTA). PMIA was successfully synthesized in the OES containing [C8MIm][Cl] in a molar fraction of xIL = 0.043, achieving an inherent viscosity of ηinh = 1.94 ± 0.064 dL g-1, which is on par with the current industrial standard and the benchmark lab scale synthesis. The reaction mixture could also be directly used for the wet spinning of polyaramid fibers, and all components of the solvent could be recycled in good yields by a series of evaporation and distillation steps. ODA/PPTA could be synthesized, but only rather low inherent viscosities were achieved. The reaction mixture was too viscoelastic to be spun by our small-scale spinning setup. PPTA always instantly precipitated and could not be synthesized from a [C8MIm][Cl]/GVL OES. α-Picoline, the organic base which was added to capture the released HCl during the reaction, was found to play a pivotal role in the polymerization reaction. By undergoing an acid-base reaction with HCl, it forms a protic ionic liquid in situ which increases the solubility of the polymer. The experimental procedure involved many compounds, such as 3-(4-Aminophenoxy)aniline (cas: 2657-87-6) .
3-(4-Aminophenoxy)aniline is one of ethers-buliding-blocks. Ethers lack the hydroxyl groups of alcohols. Without the strongly polarized O―H bond, ether molecules cannot engage in hydrogen bonding with each other. Reference of 3-(4-Aminophenoxy)anilineEthers do have nonbonding electron pairs on their oxygen atoms, however, and they can form hydrogen bonds with other molecules (alcohols, amines, etc.) that have O―H or N―H bonds.
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