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Figure 1. Scheme of 1173-F for surface oxygen inhibition resistance.
Scheme 1. Preparation of Fluorine-Containing Photoinitiator
before25,26 but related oxygen inhibition resistance was not
reported.
height, and the top surface was exposed to the air. The conversion of
monomers with presence of oxygen was investigated by real time FTIR
with the same conditions above.
In this paper, we combine the advantage of fluorine
molecular and 2-hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone (1173),
making a fluorinated photoinitiator for free radical photo-
polymerization, which could overcome oxygen inhibition
efficiently without any co-initiators or additives. This photo-
initiator has ability of migratory that result in aggregation of
photoinitiator on the top surface. Monomer with this
photoinitiator has high conversion of double bond with the
presence of air, as shown in Figure 1.
The monomer investigated in the SEM EDS-line mapping was
HDDA. The sample was placed in a mold with 10 mm in length, 10
mm in width, and 3 mm in height. The light intensity was 40 mW/cm2
and the sample was opening to air. The monomer used in GPC
analysis was MMA and the monomer used in XPS test was HDDA.
Both of the monomers were put into a glass tube with a diameter of 4
mm and height of 10 cm. The monomer was irradiated by a high-
pressure mercury lamp with incident light intensity of 40 mW/cm2
(FP-108EX−S1-B, Commonwealth Corporation, Taiwan). The UV
light was a plane light source to guarantee the equal light intensity on
each layer. The glass tube was fixed vertically on a turntable with a
rotate speed of 5 r/min, in order to uniform irradiation of different
location.
Surface Migratory Property. UV Spectrophotometer. A
solution of photoinitiator (3.25 × 10−6 mol) in acetonitrile (25 mL)
was prepared to study the concentration change of 1173-F. The
solution was placed into a quartz cell with 10 mm in length, 10 mm in
width and 12 mm in height. A black sheet with a 1 × 1 mm2 hole was
placed in front of the UV light of the UV spectrophotometer. The UV
light region was controlled in 1 × 1 mm2 by the black sheet. The
thickness of layer observed was 1 mm. The absorbance of top layer
and the bottom layer was investigated respectively by moving the
position of the quartz cell, as shown in Figure 7A. According to the
Lambert formula: A= εcL, where A is the absorbance of the initiator, ε
is the initiator molar absorptivity, c is the initiator concentration, and L
is optical distance. The concentration could be calculated by the A, L,
and ε values. The value of A could be measured by UV absorption
spectroscopy directly.
GPC, XPS, EDS-Line Mapping. The polymer rod initiated by 1173-F
was cut into many sheets. Five segments from top to bottom were
investigated by GPC and eight segments from top to bottom were
observed by XPS. The distribution of fluorine atoms in a polymer
transect initiated by 1173-F was constantly observed by the EDS-line
mapping with transverse direction and vertical direction, respectively.
Characterization. The chemical structure of 1173-F was
investigated by FTIR (Thermo Electro Corporation, Waltham, MA),
1H NMR, and 19F NMR (Bruker AV400 unity spectrometer operated
at 400 MHz with CDCl3 as solvent at 23 °C). The photo absorption
and photoinitiator dissociation were studied by UV absorption
spectroscopy (U-3010, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation,
Tokyo, Japan). The photochemical reactivity was observed by Electron
Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR, Bruker ESP300E, Germany) and laser
flash photolysis experiments (355 nm, LP920, Edinburgh Instruments
Ltd., England). Real time infrared spectroscopy (RTIR, Thermo
Electro Corporation, Waltham, MA) was used to analysis kinetics of
photopolymerization. The migration of 1173-F was studied by X-ray
photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, Thermo Electron Corporation,
Escalab 250, Germany), gel permeation chromatography (GPC,
Waters 1515, USA), UV Spectrophotometer (Hitachi High-
EXPERIMENTAL DETAILS
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Materials. 2-Hydroxy-2-methylpropiophenone (1173) was pur-
chased from Changzhou Runtec Chemical Ltd. Pentadecafluoroocta-
noyl chloride (PFOC) was purchased from Alfa Aesar. Triethylamine
(TEA), methylene dichloride, ethyl acetate, petroleum ether, and
acetonitrile were purchased from Sinopharm Group Chemical Reagent
Co. (Beijing, China). The monomers used in this paper were
hexamethylene diacrylate(HDDA) and methyl methacrylate (MMA)
given by Sartomer. All reagents were used as received without further
purification.
Synthesis of 2-Methyl-2-benzoylethanolpentadecafluorooc-
tanote (1173-F). First, 1.64 g (0.01 mol) 2-hydroxy-2-methylpro-
piophenone (1173), 1.012 g (0.01 mol) triethylamine (TEA), and 30
mL methylene dichloride (CH2Cl2) were added into a 100 mL round-
bottom flask and stirred at room temperature by using magnetic
stirring. Mixture of 4.325 g (0.01 mol) of PFOC and 20 mL of CH2Cl2
was dropped into the stirred solution in an ice water bath. The
reaction was monitored by infrared spectroscopy. When the
characteristic peaks of hydroxyl group (OH, 3465.2 cm−1) was
disappeared and carbonyl group (CO, 1773.8 cm−1) was generated,
the reaction was stopped. The primary product was purified by silica
gel column chromatography with ethyl acetate and petroleum ether as
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elution (1:10 v/v). H NMR and 19F NMR characterizations were
used to observe the chemical structure of final product. The reaction of
synthesis is shown in Scheme 1.
Photopolymerization. The polymerization kinetics was inves-
tigated by real time FTIR. For the sample without oxygen penetration
experiment, a solution of HDDA and initiator was placed in a sealed
mold made from glass slides and spacers with 10 mm in diameter and
1.2 mm in thickness. The solution was irradiated by a medium-
pressure mercury lamp with incident light intensity of 10 mW/cm2
(EXFO S1000-IB, Photonic Solutions Inc., Canada). The light
intensity on the surface of sample was detected by a UV light
radiometer (Beijing Normal University, China). The double bond
conversion of HDDA was monitored by near FTIR spectroscopy. The
absorbance change of peak area from 6100 to 6250 cm−1 was related to
the consumption of monomers. For the sample with oxygen, the
monomers and initiator with different concentrations was put into a
glass container with 10 mm in length, 10 mm in width, 1.2 mm in
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dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma2023759 | Macromolecules 2012, 45, 1158−1164