Utilization of a Meldrum's acid towards functionalized fluoropolymers possessing dual reactivity for thermal crosslinking and post-polymerization modification

Jingbo Wu; Scott T Iacono; Gregory T McCandless; Dennis W Smith Jr; Bruce M Novak

doi:10.1039/c5cc02382c

Utilization of a Meldrum's acid towards functionalized fluoropolymers possessing dual reactivity for thermal crosslinking and post-polymerization modification

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Jun 4;51(44):9220-2. doi: 10.1039/c5cc02382c.

Authors

Jingbo Wu¹, Scott T Iacono, Gregory T McCandless, Dennis W Smith Jr, Bruce M Novak

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA.

PMID: 25952621
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc02382c

Abstract

New thermally cross-linkable and/or post-functionalizable perfluorocyclobutyl (PFCB) polymers containing Meldrum's acid moieties have been successfully prepared via the thermal cyclopolymerization of a new Meldrum's acid functionalized aromatic trifluorovinyl ether (TFVE) monomer.