Method involving thermally sensitive alpha-amidoacetyl or beta-amidopropionyl linkages

Claim 2

A method according to claim 1 wherein said compound has the formula: wherein G is an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, or cycloakyl, or monovalent terminal group having a number average molecular weight in the range of 15 to infinity; or an alkylene, alkenylene, arylene, cycloalkeylene or polyvalent polymeric linking group having a number average molecular weight in the range of 14 to infinity; or a carbon-to-carbon covalent bond; p is the valence of G and can have any positive integral value from 1 to infinity; m can have any positive integral value from 1 to P; R¹ and R² independently represent an alkyl group of 1 to 14 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group of 3 to 12 carbon atoms, an aryl group of 5 to 12 ring atoms, or R¹ and R² taken together with the carbon atom to which they are joined form a carbocyclic ring of 4 to 12 ring atoms; R³ and R⁴ are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl; n is 0 or 1; A is selected from the group consisting of ―SR⁵-R⁶, wherein R⁵ can be alkylene or arylene containing 1 to 14 carbon atoms and 5 to 12 ring atoms, respectively, and R⁶ can be hydrogen or G; -OH; -O-Ar-R⁶, wherein Ar is arylene of 5 to 12 ring atoms, wherein R⁶ is as defined above; -OCHR⁷R F R⁸, wherein R⁷ can be hydrogen or R F , R F is a substantially perfluorinated alkylene or cycloalkylene group from 2 to 14 carbon atoms, and R⁸ can be hydrogen, fluorine, or G (defined above); or substantially perfluorinated R⁷ and R F together with the carbon atom to which they are joined form a carbocyclic ring of 4 to 12 ring atoms; wherein R¹, R², R⁵, and R⁶ are as defined above or R¹, R², and R⁶ together with the atoms to which they are joined form a ring of 4 to 12 ring atoms, and R⁹ can be alkyl, cycloalkyl, or aryl.

Claim 3

The method according to claim 2 wherein G further comprises one or more of S, non-peroxidic O, N, P, S, Br, Cl, F, and Si atoms, or wherein G further comprises one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, amide, ester, nitrile, nitro, sulfide, sulfoxide, sulfone, disulfide, azide, isothiocyanate, amine, hydroxyl, mercaptan, ether, urethane, quaternary ammonium and phosphonium, halogen, silyl, and silyloxy, said functional group optionally being substituted by at least one alkyl or aryl group.