O. Beaune et al., SYNTHESIS OF AMORPHOUS HIGHLY FLUORINATED POLYMERS AT HIGH TG - COPOLYMERIZATION OF FLUORINATED MALEIMIDES WITH VINYL ETHERS, Journal of fluorine chemistry, 67(2), 1994, pp. 159-167
We have prepared and characterized (by H-1 NMR and MS methods) N-4-(2'
-F-hexylethoxy)phenylmaleimide and N-4-(2'-F-hexylethylthio)phenylmale
imide. The behaviour of these fluorinated maleimides (FM) towards vari
ous vinyl ethers (2-chloroethylvinyl ether, benzylvinyl ether) in radi
cal copolymerization has been studied. Generally, maleimides and vinyl
ethers lead to alternated copolymers but, in this case, the copolymer
was not alternated. The thermal behaviour of the copolymers has been
evaluated and their thermal decomposition explained.