Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry

Metal-Free Ring-Opening Polymerization of Propylene Oxide: Synthesis and Characterization of Polyether in the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory

“…Also, the experiment seeks to introduce students to fundamental terms in polymer chemistry, like ROP, polymer molecular weight, chain-growth polymerization, initiator, and living polymerization. Some common concepts involved in undergraduate organic chemistry are also reviewed, such as Lewis acid/base, regioselectivity, nucleophilic attack, catalyst, and epoxide . Additionally, for analyzing polymer composition, this laboratory would use techniques and instrumentations that are familiar or unfamiliar to students in an organic chemistry laboratory, including NMR spectroscopy and gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) .…”