Solid-state 19F high-speed MAS, 19F CRAMPS, and 19F → 13C CP/MAS NMR spectra have
been investigated for an amorphous fluoropolymer (CYTOP) having a five-membered heteroring in the
main chain. In the 19F MAS spectra, spinning at 35 kHz is necessary to ensure no spectral overlap of
spinning sidebands (SSB) with the isotropic signals. The integrated areas obtained are consistent with
the molecular structure, and the signal assignments were confirmed using shielding calculations by the
GIAO method at a density functional level of theory, B3LYP/6-31G(d). A 19F CRAMPS spectrum measured
at a spinning speed of 6 kHz gives slightly narrower half-height widths despite SSB overlap. All fluorine
signals show monoexponential decays in the 19F spin-lock experiment with the same
, indicating the
structure is monophasic. Two fluorines connected to the same carbon give separate peaks at ambient
temperature, which reflects the magnetic inequivalence at the axial and equatorial positions of the
heteroring. However, they start to merge at 140 °C nominal temperature, which is explained by a conformational exchange caused by vigorous motion of the ring. 19F → 13C CP/MAS spectra of CYTOP were
measured at a spinning speed of 6 kHz. The evolutions of the signal intensities in the 19F → 13C variable
contact time CP experiments are adequately described by the quantum mechanical master equation
applied to the three-spin CF2 subsystem for the main peak and to the two-spin CF subsystems for the
subpeak. The C−F distances and the time constants relating to the heteronuclear polarization transfer
between 19F and 13C spins, those of the homonuclear effective spin-diffusion among fluorines and the
decay or damping of the coherences, were obtained. In addition, the time constants of homonuclear spin
diffusion among fluorines were independently measured by the 13C-detected 19F spin-diffusion experiment.