METHOD OF PRODUCING A POLYMERIC MATERIAL, POLYMER, MONOMERIC COMPOUND AND METHOD OF PREPARING A MONOMERIC COMPOUND

摘要

This invention relates to a method of producing a polymeric material, said method including the step of subjecting a starting material which includes a group of sub-formula (I): where R1 is CRaRb, where Rb is hydrogen or alkyl and Rb is hydrogen, alkyl or - R3 - R5 ≡Y1 , or R is an electron withdrawing group, R2 and R3 are independently selected from (CR6R7)n or a group CR8R9,CR6R7CR8R9 or CR8R9CR6R7 where n is 0, 1 or 2, R6 and R7 are independently selected from hydrogen or alkyl, and either one of R8 or R9 is hydrogen and the other is an electron withdrawing group, or R8 or R9 together form an electron withdrawing group; and R4 and R5 are independently selected from CH or CR10 where CR10 is an electron withdrawing group, the dotted lines indicate the presence or absence of a bond, X1 is a group CX2X3 where the dotted line bond to which it is attached is absent and a group CX2 where the dotted line bond to which it is attached is present, Y1 is a group CY2Y3 where the dotted line bond to which it is attached is absent and a group CY2 where the dotted line bond to which it is attached is present, and at least one of, and preferably all of, X2, X3, Y2 and Y3 are substituents other than hydrogen and fluorine; to conditions under which polymerisation of the starting material occurs, with the proviso that if R1 is a group N+HR16(Zm-)1/m, where R16 is selected from hydrogen, hydrocarbyl or - R3 - R5 ≡Y1 only, and Z is an anion of charge m; then either (i) the polymerisation is a homopolymerisation or a copolymerisation in which the anion Z does not form a repeat unit in a resulting polymeric chain, or (ii) the starting material only includes one group of formula - R2 - R4 ≡X1