Vinyl Chloride-Vinyl Bromide Copolymers |
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| Authors: | A. Michel G. Schmidt A. Guyot |
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| Affiliation: | C.N.R.S. Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse , Villeurbanne, France |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Radical copolymerization kinetics of vinyl chloride (VC) and vinyl bromide (VB) lead to the following reactivity ratios rVC=0.825 rVB=1.05 Vinyl bromide acts as a chain transfer agent, more powerful than vinyl chloride, the transfer constant for VC radicals being 8.5 × 10?3 at 40° C. Neither thermal nor ionic degrad-ation produce controlled distribution of short diene sequences in the copolymer. In the ionic process initiated with LiCl or LiBr in dimethylformamide solution, substitution of halogen atoms as well as acid elimination takes place. |
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