Abstract
Hydroxyl-group-alkoxylated lignophenols (LPs) with various types of alkyl halides were prepared by Williamson ether synthesis to reutilize lignin, an industrial waste material, and make it processable. As compared with raw LP, alkoxylated LPs exhibited good organosolubility and thermal stability (temperatures at 5% loss in weight were estimated to be more than 330 °C by thermogravimetric analyses). Alkoxylated LPs could also form transparent thin films; in particular, films of hexyloxyl LPs exhibited high refractive indices (≈1.55) similar to that of bisphenol A-based poly(carbonate) (PC). Furthermore, these films had lower birefringence (<0.001) than that of PC; therefore, alkoxylated LPs can be utilized as natural-polymer-based optical materials.
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