Controlled radical fluorination of poly(meth)acrylic acids in aqueous solution

Yucheng Dong; Zhentao Wang; Chaozhong Li

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00376-z

Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Controlled radical fluorination of poly(meth)acrylic acids in aqueous solution

Yucheng Dong,
Zhentao Wang,
Chaozhong Li

Affiliations

Yucheng Dong: Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhentao Wang: Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chaozhong Li: Key Laboratory of Organofluorine Chemistry and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Life Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00376-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Fluorinated alkenes have very poor reactivity in copolymerizations with non-fluorinated polar monomers. Here the authors show silver-catalyzed decarboxylative radical fluorination of poly(acrylic acid) with Selectfluor in water at room temperature to form poly(vinyl fluoride-co-acrylic acid) copolymers.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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