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JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY
Volume 201, Issue -, Pages 55-67Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfluchem.2017.08.002
Keywords
Fluoroelastomer; Terpolymer; Alkali; Dehydrofluorination; Mechanism; Thermal stability
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- International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China (ISTCP) [2015DFR40500]
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This study evaluates the dehydrofluorination mechanism, structure and thermal stability of pure fluoroelastomer which was dissolved by organic solvent and reacted with different concentrations of KOH at 20 similar to 60 degrees C. The sequence types and contents of double bonds and other oxygen-containing groups of samples were analyzed and investigated by Attenuated total reflectance/Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR), H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), F-19-NMR spectroscopy and chemical titration method; thermal decomposition temperatures of samples were analyzed by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The results revealed that dehydrofluorination of fluoroelastomer would accompain with oxidation reaction whereby some double bonds conforming to Hofmann's rule had been converted to hydroxyl groups, wherein the temperature and alkali concentration were the important factors. The double bonds generated in seven positions of molecular chains, sequence types were mainly conformed to Hofmann's rule and Zaitsev's rule supplemented. With the increase of reaction temperature and concentration of KOH, the thermal stability of fluoroelastomer decreased obviously since hydroxyl groups had a greater effect on it. Finally, the mechanism of reaction was also deduced.
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