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Article history: A solvent-free hybrid isocyanurate was prepared by trimerization of hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI)
Received 2 April 2014 and isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), and characterized by gel permeation chromatography (GPC), gas
Received in revised form 20 June 2014 chromatography (GC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and electrospray ionization mass spectrome-
Accepted 25 August 2014
try (ESI-MS). The results showed that HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate could be prepared in the presence of
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2-hydroxypropyl-trimethyl-azanium catalyst at reaction temperatures between 50 ◦ C and 70 ◦ C. Both the
GC and 1 H NMR analyses identified the favorable linear relationship between the feed ratio of the start-
Keywords:
ing monomers and the amount of each individual isocyanate incorporated into the oligomer (reaction
Isophorone diisocyanate
Hexamethylene diisocyanate
ratio). The polyurethane coatings prepared with HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurates demonstrated faster dry-
Coating ing speed, higher hardness and gloss and better distinctness-of-image (DOI) than the analogous coatings
Hybrid isocyanurate prepared with cold-blends of HDI isocyanurate and IPDI isocyanurate.
Polyurethane © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Structure
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Shanghai LingFeng Chemical Reagent Co., Ltd. n-tetradecane, chro- group was in compliance with ASTM D2572-97 and the value of
matographic pure, was supplied from Acros Organics. Desmophen NCO conversion in the reaction was calculated in accordance with
A365 BA/X, a hydroxyl-functional polyacrylate resin, glass transi- Eq. (1).
tion temperature (Tg ): about 8 ◦ C, equivalent weight: about 585, [NCO]0 − [NCO]t
hydroxyl content: about 2.9%, non-volatile: about 65% in butyl NCO conversion = × 100% (1)
[NCO]0
acetate/xylene (3:1), was supplied from Bayer AG. Desmophen
A870 BA, a hydroxyl-functional polyacrylate resin, Tg : about −15 ◦ C, where [NCO]0 is the initial mass fraction of NCO group and [NCO]t
equivalent weight: about 575, hydroxyl content: about 2.95%, non- is the mass fraction of NCO group at the interval of reaction time.
volatile: about 70% in butyl acetate, was supplied from Bayer AG.
Hypomer FX-2460AF, a hydroxyl-functional polyacrylate resin, Tg : 2.4.2. GPC (gel permeation chromatography)
about 60 ◦ C, hydroxyl content: about 1.44%, non-volatile: about GPC was performed on Waters 1515 equipped with a series of
62% in butyl acetate/propylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate, PS gel columns with a PS calibration. The tetrahydrofuran (THF)
was supplied from Elementis Co., Ltd. Desmodur N3300, pure HDI acted as the eluent at flow rate of 1 mL/min at 40 ◦ C. The GPC sam-
trimer, NCO content: 21.8%, was supplied from Bayer AG. Desmodur ples were prepared from the reaction mixture every half an hour or
Z4470 BA, pure IPDI trimer, NCO content: 11.9%, solids content: 70% an hour, which were first dissolved in THF and then deactivated
in butyl acetate, was supplied from Bayer AG. Other materials were by diethylamine, finally, the THF and excess diethylamine were
standard laboratory reagents and were used as received. distilled under vacuum at 130 ◦ C. The deactivated samples were
dissolved in THF for GPC analysis.
2.2. Synthesis of HDI/IPDI hybrid-isocyanurate
2.4.3. GC (gas chromatography)
GC was performed on GC-3010A, Shanghai Institute of Comput-
All the reactions were carried out in a 100 mL three-neck flask in
ing Technology, The carrier gas was nitrogen. Injector and detector
an oil bath, which was equipped with a mechanical stirrer, an argon
temperatures were set at 300 ◦ C. The oven temperature program
inlet, and a thermometer. In the first step, a calculated quantity of
was as follows: 80 ◦ C for 1 min, 80–280 ◦ C at 10 ◦ C/min, 280 ◦ C for
HDI, IPDI and TMR were introduced into the reactor and the mixture
10 min. The test sample was prepared by dissolving reactant and
was stirred well to obtain a uniform liquid. Then the mixture was
n-tetradecane (internal standard) in ethyl acetate, with the con-
heated to the designated temperature and kept constant. During
centration about 3%.
the reaction, the mass fraction of the NCO group, residual content
of HDI and IPDI monomer and the trimer content were measured
2.4.4. NMR
by titration using the di-n-butyl amine method according to ASTM 1 H NMR (400 MHz) and 13 C NMR (100 MHz) spectra were
D2572-97, GC, GPC, respectively. As soon as the mass fraction of
recorded in chloroform–d(CDCl3 ) on a Bruker AVANCE 400 FT-NMR
the NCO group dropped to the designed value, a calculated quan-
spectrometer.
tity of benzoyl chloride [11,12] was added to inhibit the reaction.
The mixture was continually stirred for 30 min and then the unre-
2.4.5. ESI-MS (electrospray ionization mass spectrometry)
acted monomer was removed by distillation under vacuum to yield
ESI-MS spectra were recorded on a Micromass LCT mass instru-
a colorless or pale yellow liquid for the product.
ment operating in the positive-ion mode. ESI-MS had been used
to analyze low molecular weight polymer or macromolecules up to
2.3. Preparing the two-component polyurethane coatings about 10,000 Da [13,14]. It was a soft ionization technique in which
exclusively molecular ions were formed with no fragmentation.
Two-component polyurethane coatings were prepared by The test samples were prepared by terminating HDI/IPDI hybrid
mixing polyols (Desmophen A365 BA/X, Desmophen A870 BA, isocyanurate by methanol to eliminate the possible side reactions
Hypomer FX-2460AF) with a stoichiometric amount of the HDI/IPDI inherent to the NCO group.
hybrid isocyanurate or cold blend of HDI trimer (Desmodur N3300)
and IPDI trimer (Desmodur Z4470 BA), and 100 ppm DBTDL 2.4.6. Test methods for general properties of polyurethane
(dibutyltin dilaurate). The formulas of these coatings are listed in coatings
Table 1 and the hybrid isocyanurate hardener sample of H-I-0.5 was Drying time recorder (BYK Instrument) was employed to report
used in this work. drying time according to ASTM D5895. The pendulum hardness
test (BYK Instrument) was performed according to ASTM D3363
2.4. Characterization and analysis of HDI/IPDI hybrid with glass substrate. ASTM D4752 standard test method was per-
isocyanurate formed to measure the MEK resistance. The gloss and DOI of
the coatings was measured by BYK-Gardner Instrument according
2.4.1. NCO conversion to ASTM D523 and ASTM D5767-95, respectively. Impact (BYK-
By measuring the mass fraction of NCO group, the reaction Gardner Instrument) tests were performed according to ASTM
degree was detected. The measurement of the mass fraction of NCO D5420 with steel Q-panel substrate.
Table 1
The formula of preparing polyurethane coating.
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Table 2
Synthesis conditions and results of HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate.
Sample Feed formula Catalyst (wt.%) Temperature (◦ C) Time (h) NCO conversion (%)
HDI/IPDI (w/w)
R R R
Both HDI and IPDI have two isocyanate groups. Inevitably, in the NCO NCO NCO
process of synthesizing HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate, a mixture
mainly consisting of mono-, di- and tri-isocyanurates is formed.
Their chemical structures are shown in Fig. 1. H3C
Quantitative analysis of the isocyanurate mixture was per- CH3
formed using GPC analysis described in the literature [16,17]. With R= or —CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—
Fig. 2(a) shows the normalized GPC curves at different reaction
C
times for sample H-I-2.0. The peaks at 9.8 min and 9.2 min corre- H3C
H2
spond to monomer, and trimer respectively, and all the peaks from
7.5 to 9.5 min are attributed to higher oligomers. As the reaction Fig. 1. The main structures of HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate.
time is prolonged, it can be observed that the monomer content
decreases while trimer content increases slightly. Strimer
Quantitation of trimer content in the mixture was of primary Content of trimer in oligomer = (2)
Strimer + Smultimer
interest. Deconvolution of the peaks in the GPC spectrum was
Strimer
processed by Peakfit v4.12 software as shown in Fig. 2(b). We Content of trimer in sample = (3)
assumed that the mass fraction of each component was in accor- Smonomer + Strimer + Smultimer
dance with the area fraction of each component. Thus the trimer where Smonomer , Strimer and Smultimer are the area of monomer, trimer
content was obtained from Eq. (2) and Eq. (3), and multimer, respectively.
Fig. 2. The GPC curves at different reaction times of sample H-I-2.0 (a). Deconvolution of the peaks in the spectrum of 7.5–10.5 min for the GPC result of HDI/IPDI hybrid
isocyanurate mixture using software Peakfit v4.12 (b).
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(a) Content of trimer in oligomer (wt%) (b) Content of trimer in oligomer (wt%) (c)
100 100 Content of trimer in oligomer (wt%)
80 Content of trimer in sample (wt%)
Content of trimer in sample (wt%)
Content of trimer in sample (wt%)
70
10
0 0
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Reaction time (h) Reaction time (h) Reaction time (h)
Fig. 3. Trimer content at different reaction times: (a) H-I-0.5, (b) H-I-1.0 and (c) H-I-2.0.
Fig. 4. GC analysis of HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate. where CH0 and CI0 are initial mass fraction of HDI and IPDI, respec-
tively, and CHt and CIt are terminal mass fraction of HDI and IPDI,
respectively.
The experimental results for trimer content are shown in Fig. 3. Table 3 indicates that, the residual monomer content had
The results indicate that with increasing reaction time, more trimer decreased to an extremely low level after distillation and the
is converted into oligomer, while the total amount of trimer slightly reaction ratios of HDI/IPDI increased with the feed ratio of the
increases over time. The optimum trimer content in oligomer is monomers. This point will be discussed further in Section 3.3.
achieved, when the NCO conversion reached 20–25%. In our exper-
iments, more than 50% trimer in the oligomer before distillation 3.3. 1H NMR results and analysis
and about 40% of trimer in the final samples after distillation were
obtained. 3.3.1. Structure analysis
In order to understand the hybrid isocyanurate better, 1 H NMR
3.2. GC results and analysis of HDI isocyanurate and IPDI isocyanurate were analyzed firstly
(Fig. 5) and the chemical shifts are listed in Table 4. The study
Free unreacted diisocyanate present in the reaction mixture was of IPDI isocyanurate is more complicated than HDI isocyanurate,
removed by distillation at 170–190 ◦ C under high vacuum. The partly because of the various components of the polyisocyanate.
residual monomer content was measured by GC analysis. Inter- Moreover, it should be noticed here that the IPDI trimer exhibits
nal standardization method was adopted to calculate the monomer two distinctly different isocyanate groups [18,19].
content, with n-tetradecane as the internal standard. The 1 H NMR analysis of hybrid isocyanurate is more compli-
Fig. 4 revealed that n-tetradecane (internal standard) was elu- cated. Take the sample H-I-1.0 for example (Fig. 6), the peaks at
ting at 8.79 min, HDI was eluting at 8.51 min, and the two isomers ı3.7–5.2 ppm were attributed to the protons connected with the
of IPDI were eluting at 11.15 min and 11.53 min, respectively. The isocyanurate cycle (ı3.87 ppm for HDI and ı3.74, 4.2, 5.03 ppm for
Table 3
GC results of HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate.
Sample Monomer content after reaction Feed ratio Reaction ratio Monomer content after distillationa
HDI:IPDI (mol/mol) HDI:IPDI (mol/mol)
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Fig. 5. H NMR spectrum of HDI isocyanurate and IPDI isocyanurate.
Table 4
1
H NMR chemical shifts of HDI isocyanurate and IPDI isocyanurate.
H1 3.29–3.32 I1 4.095–5.057
H2 1.61–1.64 I1 3.509–3.689
H3 1.37–1.44 I2 and I4 and I6 2.20; 1.2–1.4; 1.52
H4 1.37–1.44 I2 and I4 and I6 1.15–1.174; 1.403–1.48; 1.76–1.9
H5 1.61–1.64 I7 and I8 and I9 0.85–0.977; 0.993; 1.026–1.06; 1.06–1.15
H6 3.85–3.87 I7 and I8 and I9 0.85–0.977; 0.993; 1.026–1.06; 1.06–1.15
I10 3.052–3.067; 3.214–3.374
I10 3.753
1
Fig. 6. H NMR spectrum of hybrid isocyanurate (sample H-I-1.0).
IPDI). This indicates that both of HDI and IPDI participated in the there are signals below 1.06 ppm assigned to some methyl groups,
trimerization reaction. while there was no signal in this region in the 1 H NMR spectrum
of HDI isocyanurate. So we chose the region from 0.8 to 1.06 ppm
3.3.2. Quantitative analysis attributed to IPDI completely as internal standard and defined the
1 H NMR spectrums of HDI isocyanurate and IPDI isocyanurate integration area as 1.00. According to the partly enlarged view of
are compared in Fig. 7. In 1 H NMR spectrum IPDI isocyanurate, IPDI isocyanurate spectrum (Fig. 7), the integration area from 0.8
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to 2.3 ppm was twice as much as that from 0.8 to 1.06 ppm. Specif- where y is the reaction molar ratio of HDI/IPDI and x is the feed
ically, the area ratio must be constant, which was independent of molar ratio of HDI/IPDI.
reaction condition and the feed ratio.
As shown in Table 4, the chemical shifts of proton in hybrid 3.4. ESI-MS results and analysis
isocyanurate at 0.8–2.3 ppm corresponds to 15 hydrogens (I2–I9
and I2 –I9 ) of IPDI and 8 hydrogens (H2–H5) of HDI. We defined The hybrid isocyanurates were a mixture and the composition
the integration area from 0.8 to 1.06 ppm as S1 and that from 0.8 to had to be elucidated in this study. ESI-MS had been shown to be
2.3 ppm as S2 , thus the reaction molar ratio of HDI and IPDI can be a very efficient characterization tool for polymers under about
determined from Eq. (8). 10,000 Da [20]. Most components in the hybrid isocyanurate can
be identified by molecular weight and quantified by the abundance
SIPDI = 2 × S1 (6)
on the basis of assumption that the signal strength of abundance
SHDI = S2 − 2 × S1 (7) was independent of molecular weight [21]. The samples were ter-
minated with methanol to eliminate the possible side reactions
HDI SHDI /8 inherent to the –NCO group.
Reaction molar ratio, = (8)
IPDI SIPDI /15 The ESI-MS spectrum of methanol-terminated hybrid isocyanu-
rate (H-I-2.0) is shown in Fig. 9. It is obvious from the spectrum
where SIPDI and SHDI are the integrating area of the 15 protons that the hybrid isocyanurate is a mixture containing several com-
belong to IPDI and the 8 protons belong to HDI, respectively. ponents. The observed ions resulted from hydrogen attachment
The results of reaction ratio calculated by 1 H NMR and GC are to the species originally present in the solution. For example, the
compared in Table 5. The quantitative analysis results of reac- base peak seen at 601 Da and the corresponding isotopes result
tion ratio calculated by NMR compared well with that by GC, from hydrogen (1 Da) cationization of the methanol-terminated
which corroborates the accuracy of our data. By plotting feed HDI homotrimer. HDI monomer weighs 168 Da, therefore, the
molar ratio on the abscissa and reaction molar ratio on the ordi- homo-HDI trimer weighs 168 × 3 = 504 Da. The three methanol cap-
nate, a linear relationship between the two values was obtained in ping groups contribute 32 × 3 = 96 Da, and hydrogen adds 1 Da.
Fig. 8. Hence, the expected ion was observed at 504 + 96 + 1 = 601 Da.
First, when the feed molar ratio (HDI/IPDI) was 1.0, the predicted The ions peaks at 602 and 603 Da were attributed to the
reaction molar ratio will be about 1.8 as the dotted line shown in methanol-terminated HDI homotrimer, which has a molecular
Fig. 8. This means that HDI monomer had a higher activity than IPDI formula of [C27 H48 N6 O9 ]H+ . The ions at 655 and 709 Da were
monomer in the trimerization reaction [1]. In addition, the favor- attributed to the trimer with 2HDI + 1IPDI and 1HDI + 2IPDI (Fig. 10,
able linear relationship indicates that the reaction ratio depends 2 and 3), respectively. Surprisingly, no IPDI homotrimer was
mainly on the feed ratio and was little affected by the reaction time detected, which is attributed to the lower activity and feed ratio of
or conversion. Furthermore, the linear fitting equation (9) can be
used to prepare hybrid isocyanurate with the expected reaction
ratio.
y = 1.7088x (9)
Table 5
Comparison of the reaction ratio of HDI/IPDI calculated by 1 H NMR and GC.
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O O O O
R1 C R1 R1 C R2 R1 C R2 R2 C R2
OCN N N NCO OCN N N NCO OCN N N NCO OCN N N NCO
C C C C C C C C
O N O O N O O N O O N O
R1 R1 R2 R2
NCO NCO NCO NCO
1 2 3 4
H3C
CH3
Fig. 10. The chemical structures of four trimers in HDI/IPDI hybrid isocyanurate.
IPDI. The ESI-MS results demonstrate that the hybrid isocyanurate hybrid level was elevated. This is ascribed to the steric hindrance
was synthesized successfully. of IPDI which inhibits its self-trimerization, and the high activity
Furthermore, the peak at 969 Da is attributed to the HDI di- of the HDI which makes it easier to participate in the trimerization
isocyanurate, formed by the further isocyanuration reaction of HDI
mono-isocyanurate with HDI monomers. Compared to the abun-
Table 6
dance of mono-isocyanurate, that of di-isocyanurate was quite low,
Relative content of various components of the trimer by ESI-MS.
which indicated that the main component of the isocyanurate was
mono-isocyanurate. Peak (Da) Structural units Mole percentage (%)
Table 6 lists the quantitative analysis results of the four H-I-2.0 H-I-1.0 H-I-0.5
trimers by the related abundance on the basis of assumption that
601/623 3HDI + 3CH3 OH + H+ /Na+ 52.00 24.24 8.02
the signal strength of abundance was independent of molecular 655/677 2HDI + IPDI + 3CH3 OH + H+ /Na+ 39.07 46.32 36.50
weight. 709/731 HDI + 2IPDI + 3CH3 OH + H+ /Na+ 8.93 27.06 45.53
In Fig. 11, with the IPDI feed weight content in formula increas- 763/785 3IPDI + 3CH3 OH + H+ /Na+ 0 2.38 9.95
ing, the HDI homotrimer content decreased sharply while the Hybrid levela 48.00 73.38 82.03
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Table 7
Physical properties of two-component polyurethane coatings.
Drying time (BYK1, BYK2, BYK3, BYK4/h)a 0.1, 0.2, 2.8, 5.25 0.25, 0.7 2.2, 6 0.2, 0.8 3, 5.6 0.3, 0.5 3.3, >11 0.1, 0.2 0.7, 1.7 0.1, 0.2 2.8, 5.25
Pendulum hardness (König, s) (7 days) 134 123 165 150 135 127
Impact resistance (kg cm) 2 × 60 2 × 75 2 × 15 2 × 15 2 × 10 2 × 10
MEK rub (7 days) – – >200 >200 >200 >200
DOI (7 days) 93.7 78.5 92.5 87.7 89.4 75.6
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