T. Narita, T. Hagiwara, H. Hamana
Apr 1, 1993
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Journal of Fluorine Chemistry
Abstract
Abstract The polymerization conditions of methyl α-fluoroacrylate (H 2 CCFCOOCH 3 ) and 2,2,2-trifluoroethylα-fluoroacrylate (H 2 CCFCOOCH 2 CF 3 ) have been investigated by systematicallysurveying the typical anionic polymerization initiators and solvents in order toobtain preliminary information on the general trend of the anionic polymerization offluorinated acrylates. It is concluded that α-fluoroacrylates are polymerized by initiatorsof relatively low basicity which are incapable of producing polymers of non-fluorinatedacrylates and methacrylates. No remarkable side reactions occurred since the molecularweight distributions were unimodal and no peaks assignable to vinyl protons or otheradditional signals were observed in the 1 H NMR spectra. The polymerization took placein an anionic fashion as established from an investigation of the initiation reaction.