Poly(N-acylethylenimines) with epoxy or imidazole groups randomly attached to the end of the side chains were synthesized from decenyl/heptyl oxazoline random copolymers. They are named as DH(m/n)–epoxy and DH(m/n)–imidazole, respectively, and the starting polymers are named as DH(m/n), where m and n represent the calculated numbers of monomers with and without epoxy or imidazole groups. The DH(m/n)–epoxy polymers with 20–60 mol % of epoxy crystallize two dimensionally with crystalline polymethylene plane separated by amorphous epoxy groups. The DH(m/n)-imidazole polymers are difficult to crystallize due to the strong interaction between the bulky imidazole group and amide group. Though the imidazole containing polymers are difficult to crystallize, they are good anticorrosion coatings as demonstrated by a preliminary anticorrosion test of the DH(20/80)–imidazole polymer on electrogalvanized steel, zinc/nickel electroplated steel, and hot dipped galvanized steel.
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Morton H. Litt (1996) studied this question.