Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 20210835.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20210835

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Reduction Performance and Mechanism of Liquid Terminated-carboxyl Fluoroelastomers Using NaBH4/MCl x Reduction System

CHANG Yunfei, LIAO Mingyi(), WEN Jiaming   

  1. College of Transportation Engineering,Dalian Maritime University,Dalian 116026,China
  • Received:2021-12-16 Online:2022-06-10 Published:2022-02-22
  • Contact: LIAO Mingyi E-mail:liaomy@dlmu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51873026)

Abstract:

Using a simple one-pot method, direct transformation of liquid terminated-carboxyl fluoroelastomers(LTCFs) to the corresponding liquid terminated-hydroxyl fluoroelastomers(LTHFs) was easily realized with sodium borohydride(NaBH4) in the presence of metal chloride(MCl x ). The structure and functional group content of LTCFs and LTHFs were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), 1H nuclear magnetic resonance(1H NMR) spectrocopy, 19F nuclear magnetic resonance(19F NMR) spectrocopy and chemical titration. The results showed that —C=C— and carboxyl groups of LTCFs were reduced efficiently. The effect of different rare-earth chlorides(LaCl3, CeCl3, NdCl3 and SmCl3) and transition metal chlorides(MnCl2, NiCl2, CoCl2 and CuCl2) on the performances of the LTCFs reduction was discussed. The NaBH4/SmCl3 system was the best and the reduction rate reached 92% under optimum reaction conditions. Mechanism research showed that the stronger binding force of metal ion and carbonyl oxygen was beneficial to the reduction of LTCFs.

Key words: Liquid terminated-carboxyl fluoroelastomer, Metal chloride, NaBH4, Carboxyl, Reduction mechanism

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