Fluoropolymer for making a fluoroelastomer

摘要

In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided (i) an amorphous fluoropolymer that has one or more cure site components, the cure site components being contained in the amorphous fluoropolymer in an amount between 0.1 and 0.5 mol% based on the total amount of repeating units and/or (ii) the amorphous fluoropolymer is capable of being dehydrofluorinated, wherein the amorphous fluoropolymer is derivable from a polymerization of (a) one or more gaseous fluorinated monomers and (b) not more than 0.5% by weight based on the total weight of monomers of one or more olefins having a bromine or iodine atom bonded to a carbon of the double bond of the olefin.