Molecular Simulation on Molecular Structure Design Enabling Suppression of Elastic Modulus Decrease in Long-chain PLA Generated by Introduction of Photo-dissociable Protecting Groups
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Abstract
Previously,theauthorsproposedamethodtoendowPLAwithhydrolysis-controllability byintroducing o-nitrobenzyl alcohol as photo-dissociable protecting groups.This studyaimed to obtain thedesign guidelinefor optimummolecular structures in thelong-chain PLA generated by introducing intermediatephoto-dissociableprotecting groups.Thiswouldhelpsuppressdecreasein theelasticmodulus ofhydrolysis-controllablePLA.First, the possibilityofgenerating long-chain PLAwasdiscussedusing amolecularorbitalcalculation.Basedontheresults,itwassuggestedthat thereactiontogeneratethelong-chainPLAviao-nitrobenzylalcoholcouldoccurdepending onthe combination of the reaction sites. Secondly, uniaxial tensile simulation for the long-chain PLA, whosemolecular structuresweredeemed as“generatable”bytheMO calculation,was conducted using moleculardynamics.Theresultssuggested that thejackknife-likestructureofthelong-chain PLA formed by the introduction of the intermediate o-nitrobenzyl alcohol decreases the elastic modulus ofPLA.Therefore, it might be necessary to select photo-dissociable protecting groups, which could in turnmaintain thestraight molecular structures ofthe long-chain PLA,in order to suppress decreasein theelasticmodulus.