Functionalization of phosphazenes.VII. Photooxidative stabilization of aryloxy-substituted poluorganophosphazenes induced by grafting HALS groups through anhydride moieties

In this article, the general procedure for stabilizing polyorganophosphazenes against the damage induced in these substrates by photooxidation reactions under accelerated conditions is explored. This method is based on the preventive grafting of succinic anhydride groups onto selected polyphosphazenes induced by light excitation, followed by the reaction of the functionalized phosphazene substrates with amino-terminated HALS groups. HALS moieties, in fact, are able to strongly inhibit the photooxidation of phosphazene films under accelerated conditions even when randomly attached to the polyphosphazene materials in very low amounts.