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Hydrolysable copolymers made from different cyclic monomers have been
studied. The monomers involved are 1,5-dioxepan-2-one (DXO), L-dilacti
de, 1,3-dioxan-2-one (TMC), oxepan-2,7-dione (AA) and oxepan-2-one (ep
silon-CL). The hydrolysis of the DXO/L-dilactide copolymer showed grea
t differences in degradation rate depending on composition. A statisti
cal copolymer made from TMC and epsilon-CL was amorphous with a glass
transition temperature of -48-degrees-C. TMC and AA could form a block
copolymer with n-BuLi as initiator in toluene, 0-degrees-C.