Toward Elucidating the Role of Number of Oxazine Rings and Intermediates in the Benzoxazine Backbone on Their Thermal Characteristics

We have developed novel di-, tri-, and tetrafunctional benzoxazine monomers (BZ2, BZ3, and BZ4), solely containing benzoxazine moieties arranged one after the other on the backbone, to discover the role of additional oxazine moiety on thermal properties. A tandem reaction was adapted, at first a ring-closure and then subsequent Mannich condensation by reacting 2-((4-hydroxyphenyl)aminomethyl)phenol (HPAMP) and aniline/4-amino-2-((phenylamino)methyl)phenol/4-amino-2-(((4-hydroxy-3-((phenylamino)methyl)phenyl)amino)methyl)phenol in the presence of paraformaldehyde to obtain BZ2/BZ3/BZ4. Tetrafunctional benzoxazine monomers containing an intermediate group (R-BZ4) were also synthesized by reacting HPAMP and p-phenylenediamine/4,4′-diaminodiphenylmethane (PDA/DDM) to understand the differences in thermal properties due to the distance created by those between two benzoxazine moieties. The observations (in DSC and TGA analysis) with increase in number of oxazine rings include (i) reduction in curing temperatur...