Design and synthesis of novel benzoxazines and synthetic approaches to obtain them

PABLO FROIMOWICZ

Simposio; 4th International Symposium on Polybenzoxazines; 2021

Polybenzoxazines, among the youngest exponents in the thermoset arena, established itself as a standalone discipline within the entire polymer field. While polybenzoxazines present a set of very desirable properties, some intrinsic properties make them not completely the ideal resin of choice. For instance, the usually high polymerization temperature of resins and the associated volatility of monomers at elevated temperatures should be further enhanced. Therefore, a deeper understanding of benzoxazine chemistry, not only toward polymerization but in all senses, will let us easily design new and original chemical pathways to synthesize novel benzoxazines and benzoxazine-based systems capable of inducing programmable properties into the final polybenzoxazine-based materials. This presentation will focus on clever and innovative designs of new benzoxazines bearing novel molecular architectures and unusual functional and structural motif with the clear objective of inducing predictable chemical behaviors of the monomers and introducing new, or enhanced, desired properties into the final thermosets.