POLYMERIZATION OF VINYL BROMIDE IN SOLUTION
POLYMERIZATION OF VINYL BROMIDE IN SOLUTION
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DOI:
10.1002/pol.1959.1203813316
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发表时间:
1959-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
KATCHALSKY, A
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作者:
BLAUER, G;SHENBLAT, M;KATCHALSKY, A
The polymerization of vinyl bromide in 1,2‐dibromoethane solution has been investigated using 2,2′‐azobisisobutyronitrile as thermal initiator. Rates of polymerization were followed in high vacuum by dilatometric and gravimetric measurements. Under the conditions employed, the polymerization showed no acceleration of rate. Up to about 12 hours reaction there was no significant loss of bromine from the polymer. At 35°C. and in the monomer concentration range 1–5M, the initial rate was dependent on a power close to 2 of the monomer concentration. The rate at 35°C. was also dependent on a power close to 1.0 of the initiator concentration in the range 0.01–0.1M. Styrene yielded an exponent 0.5 for the initiator at analogous experimental conditions. The average molecular weight of the initial polymers prepared under the conditions and in the concentration ranges indicated above were determined by light scattering and viscometry. The molecular weights were of the order of 100,000 and did not depend significantly on the initiator concentration. The intrinsic viscosities increased by only 50% when the monomer concentration was increased threefold and showed even less variation when the reaction temperature was lowered to 20°C. It is suggested that the polymerization system, though in apparent homogeneous solution, is close to phaseseparation, and beyond a critical range of degree of polymerization the highly coiled macromolecular radicals are unable to terminate by bimolecular collision, while at still higher degrees, even propagation inside the buried radicals ceases. This mechanism is supported by temperature dependent reversible association phenomena found previously. Alternative explanations based on chain transfer reactions involving unreactive radicals are discussed.