Chemistry of carbon compounds – Miscellaneous organic carbon compounds
Patent
1975-03-14
1977-07-05
Czaja, Donald E.
Chemistry of carbon compounds
Miscellaneous organic carbon compounds
2603402, C08G 6308
Patent
active
040339386
ABSTRACT:
Unsymmetrically 3,6-substituted 1,4-dioxane-2,5-diones may be polymerized to give living-tissue absorbable, hydrolytically degradable surgically useful polymers. These polymers have predominantly regular rather than random spacings of side chains, may be stereoregular and tend toward higher crystallinity than randomly sequenced polymers. A polymer of 3-methyl-1,4-dioxane-2,5-dione has the same empirical formula as an equimolecular copolymer of lactic and glycolic acid but has unique physical properties resulting from its more regular steric configuration. Polymers and copolymers of 3- and 3,6-unsymmetrically substituted 1,4-dioxane-2,5-diones have surgically useful mechanical properties. On implantation, in living mammalian tissue, the polymers are absorbed, and replaced by living tissue.
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Augurt Thomas Anthony
Perciaccante Vincent Anthony
Rosensaft Michael Norman
American Cyanamid Company
Costello, Jr. Charles F.
Czaja Donald E.
Nielsen E. A.
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