Citation: Wei-Guang Qiu, Fei-Long Zhang, Xu-Bao Jiang, Xiang-Zheng Kong. NMR Analysis to Identify Biuret Groups in Common Polyureas[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2018, 36(10): 1150-1156. doi: 10.1007/s10118-018-2130-y shu

NMR Analysis to Identify Biuret Groups in Common Polyureas

College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China

Corresponding author: Xu-Bao Jiang, chm_jiangxb@ujn.edu.cn (X.B.J.) Xiang-Zheng Kong, xzkong@ujn.edu.cn (X.Z.K.)
Received Date: 24 January 2018
Revised Date: 24 January 2018
Accepted Date: 19 February 2018
Available Online: 12 April 2018

Polyureas (PU) are well known as a class of high impact engineering materials, and widely used also in emerging advanced applications. As a general observation, most of them are only soluble in a very limited number of highly protonic solvents, which makes their chemical structure analysis a great challenge. Besides the presence of abundant hydrogen bonding, the poor solubility of PU in common organic solvents is often ascribed to the formation of biuret crosslinking in their molecular chains. To clarify the presence of biuret groups in PU has been of great interest. To this end, two samples, based on hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) and toluene diisocyanate (TDI) respectively, were synthesized by precipitation polymerization of each of these diisocyanates in water-acetone at 30 °C. Their chemical structures were analyzed by high resolution magic angle spinning (HR-MAS) NMR, and through comparison of their NMR spectra with those of specially prepared biuret-containing polyurea oligomers, it was concluded that biuret group was absent in all the PU prepared at 30 °C. In addition, this NMR analysis was also applied to a PU obtained by copolymerization of TDI with ethylene diamine (EDA) and water at 65 °C in EDA aqueous solution. It was confirmed that biuret unit was also absent in this PU and that EDA was more active than water towards TDI. The presence of EDA was crucial to the formation of uniform PU microspheres. This study provides therefore a reliable method for the analysis of PU chemical structure.
- Diisocyanate,
- Polyurea,
- Chemical structure,
- Biuret,
- NMR spectroscopy
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