Nuclear magnetic relaxation in solutions of poly(fluoromethylene) and poly(vinyl fluoride); segmental mobility of fluorinated ethylene polymers

¹H and ¹⁹F spin-lattice relaxation times and nuclear Overhauser enhancement factors are reported for solutions of poly(fluoromethylene) in DMSO, and for poly(vinyl fluoride) in DMF. These results, together with literature values for other fluorinated ethylene polymers, show that substitutions of F for H on the chain backbone produce only mild changes in segmental mobility.