Liquid hydrocarbon-based copolymers bearing two cyclocarbonate ester end groups

A hydrocarbon-based copolymer P comprising two cyclocarbonate or dithiocyclocarbonate end groups F1 and F2 having the respective formulae:

• in which:
• g and d, which may be identical or different, represent an integer equal to 0, 1, 2 or 3;
• and
• G and D are two monovalent radicals such that the pair (G, D) is as follows:
• (G1, D1) of formulae:
• in which A1 is an alkylene group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms;
• (G2, D2) of formulae:
• in which A2 is an alkylene group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms;
• (G3, D3) of formulae:
• in which:
• A3 is an alkylene group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms;
• A4, A5 and A6, which may be identical or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl radical of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl radical of 5 or 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl radical or an alkylphenyl group, the alkyl chain of which has 1 to 4 carbon atoms;
• (G4, D4) of respective formulae:
• in which:
• A8 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl radical of 1 to 9 carbon atoms,
• A7 is an alkylene group of 1 to 9 carbon atoms or else a divalent radical of 1 to 20 carbon atoms and which may be linear or branched, cyclic or heterocyclic with one or more oxygen or sulfur heteroatoms;
• (G5, D5) of respective formulae:
• in which:
• A9 and A10, which may be identical or different, each represent a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl radical of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl radical of 5 or 6 carbon atoms, a phenyl radical or an alkylphenyl group, the alkyl chain of which has 1 to 4 carbon atoms;
• A9 and A10 also possibly being bonded together to form a group —(CH2—)q— in which q is an integer ranging from 3 to 5;
• wherein the main chain of said copolymer P comprises:
• a unit (I) of formula (I) repeated p times, p being an integer other than 0:
• and
• a unit (II) of formula (II) repeated n times, n being an integer other than 0:
• in which R0 represents a methyl radical or one of the three radicals having the following formula:
• and, optionally, a unit (Ill) of formula (III) repeated m times, m being an integer greater than or equal to 0:
• in which:
• R1, R2, R3 and R4, which may be identical or different, represent:
• a hydrogen or halogen atom;
• or
• a radical of 1 to 22 carbon atoms which is alkyl, alkenyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkenyloxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyloxy, alkenylcarbonyloxy or alkylcarbonyloxyalkyl, the hydrocarbon-based chain of said radical possibly being optionally interrupted with at least one oxygen atom or one sulfur atom;
• in addition:
• at least one of the groups R1 to R4 can form, with at least one other of the groups R1 to R4 and with the carbon atom or atoms to which said groups are linked, a 3- to 10-membered, optionally substituted, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon-based ring or heterocycle;
• and
• at least one of the pairs (R1, R2) and (R3, R4) can form, with the carbon atom to which said pair is linked, a group of two carbon atoms linked by a double bond:
• C═C, the other carbon atom of which bears two substituents that are a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl radical;
• and
• the carbon atom bearing one of the groups of the pair (R1, R2) may be linked to the carbon atom bearing one of the groups of the pair (R3, R4) by a double bond, it being understood that, in accordance with the valency rules, only one of the groups of each of these two pairs is then present;
• R5 represents:
• an oxygen or sulfur atom, or
• a divalent radical —CH2—, —C(═O)— or —NR6— in which R6 is an alkyl or alkenyl radical of 1 to 22 carbon atoms;
• it also being pointed out that:
• the bond represents a single bond or a double bond;
• F1 and F2 are each linked to one of the two ends of the main chain and to a unit (I);
• and
• n, p and m are such that the number-average molecular mass Mn of the copolymer P is within a range extending from 400 to 100 000 g/mol and its polydispersity index is within a range extending from 1.5 to 3.0.