METHODS OF MAKING STABLE AND THERMALLY POLYMERIZABLE VINYL, AMINO OR OLIGOMERIC PHENOXY BENZOCYCLOBUTENE MONOMERS WITH IMPROVIED CURING KINETICS

Abstract

The present invention provides methods of making low energy polymerizable monomers and resins for use in making dielectric materials. The methods comprise deprotecting or deacylating an organic alkali cleavable protecting group containing addition polymerizable, amine containing aromatic monomer or oligoaromatic phenol resin containing an organic alkali cleavable protecting group, such as a C.sub.2 to C.sub.9 alkanoyl group, preferably, an acyl group, by hydrolyzing to remove the protecting group in organic alkali in a polar solvent containing an excess of alkali C.sub.1 to C.sub.7 alkoxide and form a hydroxyl functional monomer or resin, followed by; reacting via nucleophilic substitution the resulting hydroxyl functional monomer or resin with an alpha-halide (a-halide) or strong acid conjugate leaving group containing arylcyclobutene compound in a polar solvent, to yield a product an arylcyclobutene-containing addition polymerizable or amine containing aromatic monomer or oligoaromatic phenol resin having an ether linkage from the cyclobutene ring to an aromatic group of the addition polymerizable aromatic monomer, aromatic amine or oligoaromatic phenol.

Claims

1. A benzocyclobutene compound selected from the group consisting of: 4-vinyl phenoxy benzocyclobutene, 4-amino phenoxy benzocyclobutene, ##STR00016##

2. The benzocyclobutene compound of claim 1, wherein the vinyl benzocyclobutene compound selected from the group consisting of: 4-amino phenoxy benzocyclobutene, ##STR00017##

3. A monomer having the structure ##STR00018## wherein K is a divalent group chosen from a divalent aryloxy group having from 1 to 10 aryl or phenol rings, or an oligophenolic group having from 1 to 10 phenol units; M is a divalent aromatic group chosen from a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl substituted or unsubstituted aromatic radical group or a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl substituted or unsubstituted divalent heteroaromatic radical group; L.sub.1 is a covalent bond; and R.sub.1 through R.sub.6 are each independently selected from a monovalent group chosen from hydrogen, deuterium, halide, hydroxyl, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl group, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkoxy group, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl substituted hydrocarbon group, a heteroatom containing hydrocarbon group, a C.sub.1 to C.sub.6 alkyl substituted heterohydrocarbon group, a cyano group, or an hydroxyl group.

5. The monomer of claim 4 wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is hydrogen.

6. The monomer of claim 4 wherein each of R.sub.1 through R.sub.6 is hydrogen.

Description

EXAMPLES

[0058] The present invention will now be described in detail in the following, non-limiting Examples:

[0059] Unless otherwise stated all temperatures are room temperature (21-23 C.) and all pressures are atmospheric pressure (760 mm Hg or 101 kPa).

[0060] Notwithstanding other raw materials disclosed below, the following raw materials were used in the Examples:

[0061] BCB: benzocyclobutene;

[0062] DMF: dimethylformamide;

[0063] THF: tetrahydrofuran; and,

[0064] V601: A diazo radical initiator, dimethyl 2,2-azobis(2-methylpropionate (CAS No 2589-57-3, Wako Chemical, Japan).

Comparative Example 1: Preparation of Vinyl Phenyl Benzocyclobutene

[0065] In the following example, as shown by the equation, below a Grignard reagent undergoes a catalyst mediated coupling to a palladium intermediate to form vinylphenyl BCB in a poor yield.

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[0066] Magnesium turnings (210 mg), sodium hydride (29 mg, 60% oil dispersion) and a magnetic stir bar were added to a 100 ml rbf, capped with a rubber septum and placed under vacuum and allowed to stir for 4 hours. A solution of BrBCB (750 mg) in THF (20 ml) was added via syringe slowly. The solution turned bright yellow and was placed under a nitrogen atmosphere. The solution was left to stir for 30 minutes then added via syringe to a 100 ml rbf containing a stir bar, bromostyrene (1 g), Pd PEPPSI-iPr (1,3-Bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene)(3-chloropyridyl)palladium(II) dichloride, CAS no: 905459-27-0) catalyst (190 mg, 5 mol %) and THF (15 ml) under nitrogen and capped with a rubber septum. The mixture turned black after about 30 minutes and was left to stir at room temperature for 12 h. The mixture was added to a separatory funnel containing water (100 ml), and extracted with ethyl acetate (3100 ml). The combined organics were dried with brine (100 ml) and sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The residue was recrystallized in methanol to give the desired product as a colorless solid (203 mg, 18% yield). 1H NMR (500 MHz, Chloroform-d) 7.49 (d, J=8.1 Hz, 2H), 7.44-7.26 (m, 6H), 6.84 (dd, J=17.7, 10.8 Hz, 1H), 5.86 (d, J=17.7 Hz, 1H), 5.35 (d, J=10.8 Hz, 1H), 4.86-4.75 (m, 1H), 3.85 (dd, J=13.9, 5.7 Hz, 1H), 3.22 (dd, J=13.9, 2.7 Hz, 1H). A DSC of the resulting monomer showed an exotherm (cure) peak max of 165 C. at a scan rate of 10 C./min.

[0067] The yield in the above reaction was very low. Further, no ether linkage resulted from the reaction. However, the cure temperature of the monomer was acceptable.

Example 2: Preparation of Vinyl Phenoxy Benzocyclobutene

[0068] In a 250 ml three necked round bottom flask equipped with a polytetraflouroethylene (Teflon polymer, Dupont, Wilmington, Del.) coated magnetic stir bar, potassium hydroxide (1.38 g, 1 eq) was dissolved in water (6.83 g). Then, 4-acetoxy styrene (4 g, 1 eq) was added dropwise at room temperature, and the solution turned from colorless to pale orange. Potassium carbonate (6.82 g, 2 eq) was added portionwise, and the solution was stirred for one hour. The flask was equipped with a reflux condenser, then 1-bromobenzocyclobutene (4.06 g, 1 eq) was added dropwise in DMF (41 ml). The solution was then heated to 70 C. and allowed to reflux overnight. To the reaction was added water (50 ml) and ethyl acetate (50 ml). The aqueous residue was extracted four times with ethyl acetate (100 ml). The combined organics were extracted with sodium bicarbonate solution (1100 ml), lithium chloride aqueous solution (1100 ml) and brine (2100 ml). The organics were dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated in vacuo to give the product as a of white solid (3.36 g, 68% yield). Melting point 54-60 C. 1H NMR (600 MHz, Chloroform-d) 7.39 (d, J=8.6 Hz, 2H), 7.34 (td, J=7.3, 1.5 Hiz, 1H), 7.31-7.24 (m, 2H), 7.21-7.18 (m, 1H), 6.98 (d, J=8.6 Hz, 2H), 6.69 (dd, J=17.6, 10.9 Hz, 1H), 5.70 (dd, J=4.3, 1.9 Hz, 1H), 5.64 (dd, J=17.6, 0.9 Hz, 1H), 5.15 (dd, J=10.9, 0.9 Hz, 1H), 3.73 (dd, J=14.2, 4.3 Hz, 1H), 3.31 (d, J=14.2 Hz, 1H). 13C NMR (151 MHz, Chloroform-d) 157.79, 144.62, 142.57, 136.20, 130.87, 129.93, 127.50, 127.43, 123.48, 123.04, 115.06, 111.80, 74.28, 39.45. Yield from the above example was good and the resulting monomer was a stable solid which has a desirable ring opening cure temperature of 184 C.

Example 3: Preparation of Vinyl Phenoxy Benzocyclobutene

[0069] To a 3 L three neck reaction flask fitted with mechanical stirring (300 rpm), a glass addition funnel and a thermocouple was added acetoxystyrene and DMF. The acetoxystyrene was sparged with nitrogen for 15 minutes, then the reactor was submerged in an ice bath to which the thermocouple read 15 C. A solution of sodium methoxide in methanol (NaOMe/MeOH) was fed into the glass addition funnel, and the solution was added portion-wise over 60 minutes, monitoring the exotherm (highest T was 21 C.). When addition was complete, a wine red solution was observed. 1-BrBCB, DMF and a nitroxide containing radical polymerization inhibitor (TEMPO, 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine 1-oxyl, CAS 2564-83-2, 25 mg) were fed into the reactor and stirred for 30 minutes. The ice bath was removed and a heating mantle was applied. The mixture was heated to 70 C. (setpoint, never exceeded 70 C.). The mixture was stirred and tracked by NMR (d6 DMSO or d6 acetone) and was complete after 18 h. The solution darkened and a few particulates were observed. The reactor was allowed to cool to 35 C., then 450 ml water was added and stirred for 10 minutes.

[0070] The mixture was transferred to a large separation funnel, and organics were dissolved after 6000 ml of a mixture of heptanes had been added with some agitation. The bottom aqueous layer was drained and an NMR was taken to look for remaining organic material, which was not observed.

[0071] The organic layer was drained and stripped in vacuo wherein product was placed in 4 glass jars and cycled in vacuum 10 times over 3 days at RT to dry.

[0072] The dry product was a tan solid 586.02 g, an excellent 96% yield, 99% purity by UPLC. The melting point and NMR spectra of the resulting monomer, 4-vinylphenoxy BCB, matched the product isolated in Example 2, above.

Comparative Example 4: Preparation of 4-amino phenoxy BCB

[0073] In a 250 ml rbf with magnetic stir bar was added aminophenol (1 g, 1 eq), THF (15 ml) and KOtBu (1.23 g, 1.2 eq). The mixture was allowed to stir for 1 hour at room temperature. Bromo BCB (1.68 g, 1 eq) was added in THF (15 ml). The reaction was capped and allowed to stir for 12 h at room temperature. Water (100 ml) was then added. Ethyl acetate (3100 ml) was used to extract the product from the aqueous phase. The combined organics were dried over sodium sulfate, filtered and concentrated in vacuo. The crude residue was subjected to a column of silica gel using heptanes and ethyl acetate (9:1) as eluent to give product (892 mg, 46%) as a dark oil.

[0074] 1H NMR (500 MHz, Chloroform-d) 7.32 (dt, J=6.6, 4.3 Hz, 1H), 7.28-7.23 (m, 2H), 7.18 (d, J=7.4 Hz, 1H), 6.86 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 2H), 6.69 (d, J=9.0 Hz, 2H), 5.59 (dd, J=4.3, 2.1 Hz, 1H), 3.66 (dd, J=14.1, 4.3 Hz, 1H), 3.46 (br s, 2H), 3.28 (d, J=14.1 Hz, 1H). 13C NMR (126 MHz, Chloroform-d) 151.04, 145.18, 142.64, 140.49, 129.73, 127.29, 123.47, 123.00, 116.48, 116.36, 74.89, 39.47. DSC Showed an exotherm peak temperature at 179 C. at a scan rate of 10 C./min.

[0075] The procedure in Example 2 can be followed to produce the following products from the corresponding unsaturated starting materials shown in the table, below:

TABLE-US-00001 Organic Alkali Cleavable protecting Group Containing Example Monomer Product 5 [00010] [00011] 6 [00012] [00013] 7 [00014] [00015] 1. Propane-2,2-diylbis(2-allyl)-4,1-phenylene) diacetate; 2. 7,7-((propane-2,2-diylbis(2-allyl)-4,1-phenylene))bis(oxy))bis(bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,3,5-triene); 3. 3,5-diethynylphenyl acetate; 4. 7-(3,5-diethynylphenoxy)bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(6),2,4-triene; 5. 3,3-diallyl-[1,1-biphenyl]-4,4-diyl diacetate; 6. 7,7-((3,3-diallyl-[1,1-biphenyl]-4,4-diyl)bis(oxy))bis(bicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1(6),24-trien).

Example 8: Preparation of a Copolymer of Vinyl Phenoxy Benzocyclobutene Co Styrene

[0076] Styrene (4.77 g) and vinyl phenoxy benzocyclobutene (1.13 g) were dissolved in THF (3.98 g) along with V601 initiator (70 mg) in an EZ Max 100 ml jacketed reactor (Mettler Toledo, Columbia, Md.) equipped with overhead stirring and nitrogen atmosphere. The solution was purged with nitrogen gas for 30 minutes, then heated to an internal temperature of 60 C. overnight. The resulting viscous solution was diluted with THF (20 ml) then precipitated into methanol (250 ml), filtered and dried overnight in vacuo to give the copolymer (4.23 g, 72% yield). Mn 36.6k, Mw 79.1k. The polymer curing kinetics were evaluated via differential scanning calorimetry (DSC, TA Instruments Q2000, TA instruments, New Castle, Del.) at a ramp rate of 2, 5, 10 and 20 C./min. The Kissinger method was used to determine a ring opening activation barrier of 24.2 kcal/mol. Thermal stability was evaluated using thermogravimetric analysis (TA Instruments Q5000) under a nitrogen atmosphere, wherein a solid polymer sample was placed in a TGA pan and run out to 400 C. at a rate of 10 C./min.

[0077] The TGA of the resulting copolymer exhibited a five percent weight loss value at 300 C.