PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POLY(ARYLAMINE SULFONES) AND POLY(ARYL ETHER SULFONES) CARRYING THE C61 FULLEROID PENDANT GROUP

This study described the synthesis of soluble polymers carrying fulleroid pendant groups. The starting monomer 4,4'-difluorodiphenyl fulleroid (FPh)2C61 was synthesized and polycondensed with aromatic diamine sulfone to give poly(4,4'-diphenyl-C61 amines) or with aromatic dialcohol sulfone to give poly(4,4'-diphenyl-C61 ethers). Polycondensation was carried out in different solvents with and without catalyst. Soluble polymers having an average molecular weight in the range M(w) = (5-20) x 10(3) were obtained. Molecular structural characterization of monomer and of fullerene moiety in the polymers was achieved by NMR, infrared, and UV-visible spectroscopies, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis.