Hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane was found to undergo photoinitiated cationic ring-opening polymerization in solution and bulk,
upon exposure to UV radiation, in the presence of either sulfonium or iodonium salts or an iminosulfonate derivative. Glass
transition temperatures were below − 100 °C. Molecular weights, determined by size exclusion chromatography relative to polystyrene
standards, increased with photolysis lamp intensity. Use of an iodonium photoinitiator afforded poly(dimethylsiloxane) with
Mn = 172,000. Polymerization of hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane was accompanied by a small increase in volume (3 – 4%).
Received: 12 September 1996/Revised: 29 October 1996/Accepted: 1 November 1996 相似文献
Summary
A visible light photoinitiating system for cationic polymerization of cyclic ethers such as cyclohexene oxide (CHO) and vinyl
monomers such as n-butyl vinyl ether (BVE) and N-vinyl carbazole (NVC) has been developed, using a fluorinated titanocene
free radical photoinitiator, Irgacure 784, together with an onium salt, such as diphenyl iodonium hexafluoro antimonate and
N-ethoxy-2-methyl-pyridinium hexafluoro-antimonate. Based on the reported photochemistry of fluorinated titanocenes, a mechanism
for generating cationic species is proposed based on electron transfer between photoproducts of titanocene and onium salt.
Evidence against the incorporation of an aromatic titanocene moiety in the resulting polymers is presented. Inhibition by
a specific proton scavenger suggests that protons may initiate the polymerization.
Received: 26 April 2001/Revised version: 6 June 2001/Accepted: 6 June 2001 相似文献
Photocuring of epoxides proceeds by a cationic mechanism. The required photoinitiators are iodonium or sulfonium salts with non-nucleophilic anions. The influence of different photoinitiators on the adhesion properties of both a rigid and a soft epoxide is examined. Depending on the substrates to be joined, different decomposition products of the initiators are concentrated in the interphase. This accumulation of decomposition products in the interphase leads to a decreased adhesion. On gold surfaces the sulfur of sulfonium salts is concentrated as expected. But surprisingly the iodine of the iodonium salts is also concentrated on gold. It could be shown by immobilization experiments that organic iodine compounds with the iodine in any oxidation state reacted with gold surfaces. Due to this reaction iodide anions are formed. On silicon surfaces the fluorine of the anions PF6- and SbF6- is concentrated due to the high affinity of silicon for fluorine. The iodonium salt with [B(C6F5)4]anion contains no fluorine able to react with the silicon. Therefore, the fluorine cannot be concentrated in the interphase and the joints prepared with the soft epoxide containing this initiator have a higher shear strength compared to adhesives with conventional anions. 相似文献
Although sulfonium salts are well known, polymeric sulfonium salts seldom have been mentioned in the chemical literature. This paper describes exploratory work in the preparation of various sulfonium monomers and polymers from ar-vinylbenzyl chlorides (ortho and para isomers). These chlorides—particularly the para isomer—reacted readily with 2,2′-thiodiethanol and water to yield the corresponding ar-vinylbenzyl sulfonium chloride monomers in aqueous solution. The odorless, reactive monomer mixture polymerized readily with persulfate or hydroperoxide catalysts; however, polymerization could be inhibited with cupric salts. Copolymerization with trimethyl(ar-vinylbenzyl)ammonium chloride was random. In copolymerization with acrylamide or acrylonitrile, the sulfonium monomer was more reactive. Analogous sulfonium monomers were made by reaction of ar-vinylbenzyl chlorides with various sulfides. In general, all the sulfonium monomers yielded homopolymers which were fairly stable in aqueous solution in the absence of strongly nucleophilic agents which would attack the sulfonium groups. However, when dried at room temperature the polymers would crosslink; and when heated, the polymers became hydrophobic also. Scrambling of the sulfonium group substituents during drying, and nucleophilic displacement reactions by chloride ion during heating were likely explanations. The high cationic charge on the polymers made them substantive to cellulose fibers. This property, when coupled with high nucleophilic reactivity of the sulfonium groups with the carboxylate sites of the pulp or other anionic counterious during drying and heating, made the polymers very effective as beater additives for imparting wet strength to paper. 相似文献