COPOLYMERIC SYSTEMS WITH PENDANT THIOXANTHONE AND ALPHA-MORPHOLINOACETOPHENONE MOIETIES AS PHOTOSENSITIZING AND PHOTOINITIATING AGENTS FOR UV-CURABLE PIGMENTED COATINGS
L. Angiolini et al., COPOLYMERIC SYSTEMS WITH PENDANT THIOXANTHONE AND ALPHA-MORPHOLINOACETOPHENONE MOIETIES AS PHOTOSENSITIZING AND PHOTOINITIATING AGENTS FOR UV-CURABLE PIGMENTED COATINGS, Journal of applied polymer science, 55(10), 1995, pp. 1477-1488
The synthesis and structural characterization of copolymers of 1-[(2-a
cryloyloxy) ethoxycarbonyl] thioxanthone (ATX) with hylthio)phenyl]-2-
methyl-2-morpholino-propan-1-one (AMMP), as well as ATX, AMMP and n-bu
tyl acrylate (BA) terpolymers, is reported. These copolymeric systems
have been checked in the photoinitiated polymerization in film matrix
of the 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate (HDDA)-BA equimolar mixture under UV
irradiation over 380 nm, i.e., under conditions simulating a TiO2-pigm
ented acrylic coating formulation, and compared with the corresponding
mixture of low-molecular-weight structural. models 1-[(2-isobutyroylo
xy)ethoxycarbonyl]thio (ITX) and hylthio)phenyl]-2-methyl-2-morpholino
-propan-1-one (IMMP). The much higher photoinitiation activity shown b
y the copolymers is discussed in terms of close vicinity of thioxantho
ne and alpha-morpholinoacetophenone moieties along the backbone, which
favors the excitation energy transfer from the former to the latter p
hotosensitive group. (C) 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.