The effect of fluorine atoms on gas transport properties of new polynorbornene dicarboximides
作者:Joel Vargas、Araceli Martínez、Arlette A. Santiago、Mikhail A. Tlenkopatchev、Rubén Gaviño、Manuel Aguilar-Vega
DOI:10.1016/j.jfluchem.2008.09.011
日期:2009.2
The new N-4-trifluoromethylphenyl-norbornene-5,6-dicarboximide (2a) and N-3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl-norbornene-5,6-dicarboximide (2b) mixtures of exo and endo monomers were synthesized and polymerized via ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) using bis(tricyclohexylphosphine) benzylidene ruthenium(IV) dichloride (I) and tricyclohexylphosphine 11,3-bis(2,4,6-trimethylphenyl)-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene][benzylidene] ruthenium dichloride (II) to produce the corresponding polynorbornene dicarboximides Poly-2a and Poly-2b, respectively. The transport of five gases He. N-2, O-2, CO2 and CH4 across membranes prepared from Poly-2a was determined at 35 degrees C using a constant volume permeation cell. The gas transport properties of the fluorine containing polymer Poly2a were compared with those found for membranes from non-fluorinated poly(N-phenyl-exo-elidonorbornene-5,6-dicarboximide) (P-PhNDI). Gas permeability, diffusion and solubility coefficients of the fluorine containing polynorbornene Poly-2a were up to an order of magnitude larger than those of the non-fluorinated one. Poly-2a was found to have one of the largest gas transport coefficients reported to date in glassy polynorbornene dicarboximides. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.