PROCESS FOR PRODUCTION OF FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMERS

摘要

The fluorine-containing polymer having a small number of ionic functional groups is prepared by a process, in which emulsion polymerization proceeds stably and produced polymer does not adhere to side walls of a polymerization reactor even without using an emulsifying agent, and the process comprises a first step for preparing a dispersion comprising fluorine-containing emulsified particles having ionic functional groups by polymerizing a fluorine-containing monomer mixture comprising a perhalo ethylenic monomer and a nonperhalo ethylenic monomer by using a water soluble radical polymerization initiator without adding an emulsifying agent, and a second step for preparing a fluorine-containing polymer having ionic functional groups in a small amount by emulsion polymerization of fluorine-containing monomers using a radical polymerization initiator in the presence of the fluorine-containing emulsified particles having ionic functional groups without adding an emulsifying agent, wherein the fluorine-containing emulsified particles having ionic functional groups prepared in the first step are used in an amount of from 0.01 to 5.0 % by mass based on the fluorine-containing polymer to be obtained in the second step, and an amount of the water soluble radical polymerization initiator used in the first step is from 0.01 to 1,000 % by mass based on the fluorine-containing emulsified particles having ionic functional groups prepared in the first step.