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An extraordinarily rapid polymerization of vinylpentafluorocyclopropane: Highly stereo- and regioselective synthesis of unsaturated fluoropolymers
Yang, Zhen-Yu
, p. 870 - 871 (2003)
Vinylpentafluorocyclopropane 1 was prepared from the reaction of 1,1,2-trifluoro-4-bromobutene and hexafluoropropylene oxide at 190 °C, following by treatment with KOH. 1 is stable at low temperature (-40 °C) for 7 years, but it rearranged readily to 2,3,3,4,4-pentafluorocyclopentene-1, 2, at above 80 °C (Ea = 28.7 kcal/mol). Under radical conditions, 1 extraordinarily rapidly polymerizes to give highly crystalline Z-fluoropolyolefin (CF2CF2CF=CHCH2)n, 3, which is very useful for cross-linking and grafting but difficult to obtain by other means. The stereochemistry of 3 was further confirmed by radical addition of iodine to 1 to form Z-ICF2CF2CF=CHCH2I, 4, exclusively. The rapid polymerization with high stereoselectivity and regioselectivity could be rationalized by effects of a favorable polar transition state of a high ring strain and electron-deficient pentafluorocyclopropyl and a relative electron-rich double bond of 1. Copyright
Polymers of vinyl(perfluorocyclopropane)
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, (2008/06/13)
Disclosed herein are polymers made by free radically polymerizing the novel compound vinyl(perfluorocyclopropane), and optionally other monomers to form copolymers. The repeat unit formed by vinyl(perfluorocyclopropane) contains an olefinic bond, making it particularly useful as a grafting and/or crosslinking site.
