ISSN:
0032-3888
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
,
Physics
Notes:
Cyclobutane tetracarboxylic acid dianhydrides, which were prepared via photodimerization of maleic anhydride or methylmaleic anhydride, gave high molecular weight film-forming polyimides with oxydianiline. The resulting polyimides were found to be photosensitive, presumably because of retrocyclization of the cyclobutane ring. Despite the presence of the cyclobutane ring, the polyimides show good thermal stability. In an effort to enhance the thermal stability and lower the dielectric constant of these polyimides, an approach was made to prepare the fluorinated analogs of the cyclobutane dianhydride monomers via the preparation and photodimerization of fluorinated maleic anhydride derivatives. Thus, both fluoromaleic and difluoromaleic anhydrides were photolyzed to give the target monomers. The proposed application of these monomers, however, has yielded disappointing results due to complications in their synthesis and attempted polymerization.
Additional Material:
1 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pen.760322118
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