Highly Fluorinated Poly(arylene alkylene ether sulfone)s:  Synthesis and Thermal Properties

• Published in: Macromolecules Vol. 40; no. 9; pp. 3145 - 3153
• Main Authors: Ding, Jianfu, Du, Xiaomei, Day, Michael, Jiang, Jia, Callender, Claire L., Stupak, Jacek
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Chemical Society 01.05.2007
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Exact sciences and technology; Organic polymers; Physicochemistry of polymers; Polycondensation; Preparation, kinetics, thermodynamics, mechanism and catalysts; Base catalysis; Melting; Sulfone polymer; Solution polycondensation; In situ; Fluorine containing polymer; Temperature effect; Experimental study; Chemical reaction kinetics; Thermal stability; Heterogeneous catalysis; Preparation; Alkali metal Fluorides; Solution crystallization; Nucleophilic substitution

A simple procedure has been developed for the preparation of highly fluorinated poly(arylene alkylene ether sulfone)s using a nucleophilic polycondesation reaction of decafluorodiphenyl sulfone (DPSO) with a series of fluorinated linear or branched alkylene diols containing 4−12 carbon atoms. The re...