Polyurethanes containing perfluoroalkyl groups and a process for their production

Abstract

To render surfaces, such as of textile fabrics and fibers, repellent to oil and/or water, they are treated with novel polyurethanes containing perfluoroalkyl ligands and having as recurring structural units ##STR1## with chain ends of the formula --YA.sub.m' in which X, Y and Z each independently is the skeletal radical of an aliphatic or aromatic di- or polyisocyanate, R.sub.F is a difunctional radical containing at least one perfluoroalkyl ligand, the perfluoroalkyl chain comprising 3 to 30 carbon atoms and, in addition to fluorine atoms, containing at most one hydrogen or chlorine atom to two carbon atoms; and the perfluoroalkyl chain optionally being interrupted by oxygen, n is the number of isocyanate groups on the skeletal radical X and is an integer from 2 to 25, A is an isocyanate group protected by a blocking agent, m is the number of blocked isocyanate groups A on the skeletal radical Y and is an integer from 1 to 5, E is O, S or --NR'--, R' is H, alkyl or aryl, R is the radical of a compound containing at least two alcohol, amine and/or thiol groups, a and b are the number of --OH, --NR'H or --SH functions in the alcohols, amines or thiols R(EH).sub.(a+b) used and each is an integer from 0 to 10, and p is the number of isocyanate groups on the skeletal radical Z and is an integer from 0 to 25. Subsequent heating removes the end blocks and effects chemical fixation on the surface.

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