Imidate-containing fluoropolymer compositions

US6657013B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Werner M. A. Grootaert · Windom, US
• Robert E. Kolb · Afton, US
• Klaus Hintzer · Woodbury, US
• Werner Schwertfeger · Altötting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 11, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 2, 2003
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F8/30
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A composition that includes a fluoropolymer comprising interpolymerized units derived from a cure site monomer comprising a nitrile group; and (b) a catalyst composition comprising a compound having the formula R1C(OR2)═NH, and salts thereof, where R1 and R2, independently, are a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, or alkenyl group, as well as a method for curing this composition and cured articles prepared from this composition.