Methods for the Synthesis of Polyethereketone

Abstract

The data on the methods for the preparation of polyetherketones by electrophilic and nucleophilic methods are considered and generalized. It is shown that polyetherketones by electrophilic substitution are carried out as homopolycondensation aromatic monocarboxylic acids and their halides and polycondensation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons with aromatic dicarboxylic acids or their halides, and phosgene in organic solvents (1,2-dichloroethane, methylene chloride, nitrobenzene and etc.) in the presence of Ziegler-Natt catalysts. However, this process has not found an industrial application in view of such disadvantages as low yield of the desired product, the formation of a polymer with low molecular weight, synthesis time (15-40 hours), the use of large amounts of catalyst, the complexity of polymer purification of it.