Polyelectrolytes prepared from perfluoroalkylaryl macromolecules

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Abstract
The synthesis of a new generation of high‐capacity oxidation‐resistant ion‐exchange resins and membranes is described which are sulfonic acid polyelectrolytes prepared from high molecular weight poly‐α,β,β‐trifluorostyrene. The difficult sulfonation of poly‐α,β,β‐trifluorostyrene is discussed in terms of the finding that this sulfonation must be effected upon an aromatic ring possessing a meta‐directing substituent group. The oxidative stability of these new types of perfluoroalkyl aromatic sulfonic acid polyelectrolytes is both demonstrated and described with comparisons to their polystyrenesulfonic acid homologs. The difference in their oxidation–depolymerization stabilities is described in terms of benzylic carbon substituents.

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