Baumgartner, B.; Bojdys, M. J.; Skrinjar, P.; Unterlass,* M. M. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287.
Hydrothermal polymerization, a benign synthesis for aromatic polyimides, is studied in detail to gain greater insight in the ongoing mechanisms. By performing an extensive set of experiments at various parameters, polyimides of outstanding crystallinity are obtained and could thus refine their crystal structure from powder XRD data. Initial condensation intermediates could isolate, which indicates that HTP is mechanistically closely related to classical step-growth polycondensations.
This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Baumgartner, B.; Bojdys, M. J.; Skrinjar, P.; Unterlass,* M. M. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics 2015, DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287, which has been published in final form at [DOI: 10.1002/macp.201500287].