A bifunctional alkyl halide, namely l, 2-bis(2′-bromobutyryl) ethane (BBrBE), was synthesized and used to initiate the bulk atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) of styrene (St) at 110°C in the presence of CuBr/2,2′-bipyridyl. The narrow polydispersity of polystyrene (PSt) with precisely two arms could be synthesized. The initiate ability of the two active bromide functional groups at both sides of BBrBE for St and the propagation ability of the two arms were confirmed to be similar by the characterization of the individual arms obtained upon hydrolysis of the ester link between the core and the branches. 相似文献
Over the past few years, the utilization of late transition metal-based soluble complexes as styrene polymerization catalysts has received considerable attention1. Various systems have been explored. For example, cationic h3-allylnickel complexes alone2 or modified by P (III) ligands3 as well as a few other systems (e. g., cationic h3-benzylic nickel complexes4) are active homogeneous catalysts for the low molecular weight polymerization of styrene by simple cationic mechanism2,3,4. Neut… 相似文献
An experimental and theoretical study on the thermal (spontaneous) polymerization of styrene in compartmentalized systems is presented. Experimental data on thermally polymerized miniemulsions varying temperature and droplet size is provided. This data is used to test a new model approach to describe the thermal polymerization process of a disperse phase. The mathematical model is based on a chemical master equation balancing radical species that are capable of desorption (monomeric radicals) and ones that cannot leave a particle. Reasonable agreement between theory and experiment for the data provided here and for literature data can be achieved. Part 1 of this series is a review on the thermal bulk polymerization of styrene.
The present paper evaluates largely unstudied kinetic aspects of styrene polymerization with a (relatively new) acyloxyamine over several temperature levels and contrasts these features with regular styrene polymerization and styrene polymerization with TEMPO. These comparisons show that the system behaves rather like regular thermal polymerization of styrene at temperatures between 120–180°C. However, at higher temperatures (> 180°C), acyloxyamine has an initiator-like contribution, giving the rate of polymerization an extra boost while decreasing molecular weights. This is further corroborated by mathematical modeling for both conversion and molecular weight averages. 相似文献
Despite a great deal of research on nitroxide mediated radical polymerization (NMRP), its kinetic mechanism is not fully known yet. The focus of this work was to contribute further to the understanding of the kinetics of NMRP processes through refinements of a comprehensive mathematical model developed by our group for the bimolecular system. This work considered important secondary reactions that can occur during the NMRP process. It also analyzed important kinetic aspects via a sensitivity study on some key parameters of the system. It was observed that an irreversible reaction between the TEMPO controller and the chemical initiator is very important and must be considered in the NMRP mechanism, in order to be able to describe properly both conversion and average molecular weight data. 相似文献
Diphenylzinc-metallocene-MAO initiator systems have proven to be effective initiator systems for styrene and for substituted styrenes as well as for their styrene/(styrene-derivative) copolymerization. Titanocene produced almost pure syndiotactic polymers while zirconocenes gave atactic polystyrene together with a low content, less than 20%, of syndiotactic polystyrene. Systems including a zirconocene, particularly ethenyl(bisindenyl)zirconium dichloride were effective initiators of 1-alkene polymerization and of styrene/1-alkene copolymerization. Conversion to polymer increases with the molecular size of 1-alkene. Styrene derivative and styrene/(styrene derivative) polymerization was greatly influenced by the inductive effect of substituent and by steric hindrance due to the monomer. 相似文献
Summary: The incorporation of graphite into polystyrene (PS) particles produced by suspension polymerization was studied using a monofunctional and a bifunctional initiator, benzoyl peroxide (BPO) and 2,5-dimethyl-2,5-bis(2-ethyl hexanoyl peroxide) hexane (L256), respectively. The results showed that the polymerization rate was affected by graphite concentration when BPO was used as the initiator while no such effect was observed for L256. Results also showed that the incorporation of graphite in the PS particles was higher when using BPO than when using L256. Molecular weight distribution showed that during the reaction with BPO and graphite oligomers were formed indicating that the free radicals generated by the decomposition of BPO presented a very high reactivity with the functional groups present at the graphite surface while no significant effect was observed for the reaction with L256. 相似文献