Polymer Bulletin, Vol.39, No.3, 271-278, 1997
Investigations on Synthesis and Polymerization of Difunctional 7-Membered Cyclic Ketenacetals
The synthesis of difunctional seven-membered cyclic ketenacetals was investigated and the new monomers were characterized by IR-, NMR-spectroscopy, and elemental analysis. It was shown that the bifunctional ketenacetal 5 undergoes a radical homopolymerization forming crosslinked polymers with a high degree of ring-opened units. The copolymerization of the difunctional ketenacetal 5 with the monofunctional ketenacetal 1 leads only to low molecular polymers.