The Prediction of Reactivity in Radical Polymerisation

Author: Jenkins A.D.

Source: Current Organic Chemistry, Volume 6, Number 2, February 2002 , pp. 83-107(25)

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

Abstract:

The essential reactions in radical polymerisation involve the addition of a radical to a molecule. In the propagation process, the radical is typically a polymer and the molecule is a monomer in transfer, the molecule is a transfer agent and, in initiation, the radical is a species of low molar mass. It is now possible to predict the reactivity of both the radicals and the molecules by means of a revised form of the Patterns Scheme, and a review is presented here of the historical development of the state of understanding of reactivity in the various component steps in a polymerisation process propagated by radicals.

Keywords: Radical Polymerisation; size-exclusion chromatography; monomer reactivity ratio; Acenaphthalene; Diallyl phthalate; Pyridine, 4-vinyl; Inititator Radicals; NMR spectrum

Language: English

Document Type: Review article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1385272023374562

Publication date: 2002-02-01

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