Photochemical reactions of copolymers of O-acryloyl acetophenone oxime (AAPO) and phenyl vinyl ketone (PVK) in the solid phase were investigated. The decrease of molecular weight of these copolymers in the photolysis was limited compared to that of PVK homopolymer. Results of IR and elemental analyses showed that pendant acyloxyimino (AOI) groups were phototransformed into the pendant amino groups. This behavior suggests that PVK units in this copolymer worked as a sensitizer for the photolysis of AOI groups. The energy transfer from PVK units to AOI groups was confirmed to proceed via an excited triplet state by the quenching study of phosphorescence of a PVK homopolymer by a model compound, O-cyclohexanecarbonyl acetophenone oxime. Dissolution alteration of AAPO copolymers before and after irradiation was also investigated.
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Suyama et al. (1996) studied this question.