1H-NMR spectra of complexes between methacrylic monomer and ethylaluminium dichloride in toluene and methylene chloride

¹H-NMR spectra of mixtures of a methacrylic monomer such as methacrylonitrile or methyl methacrylate and ethylaluminium dichloride at various molar ratios were measured in toluene or methylene chloride at various temperatures. It was found that only one kind of binary complex is detectable in the methacrylonitrile–ethylaluminum dichloride equimolar mixture, while in nonequimolar systems there are several kinds of binary complexes, depending on the molar ratio at low temperature in these solvents. Moreover, the chemical shifts of the protons of methacrylonitrile due to complex formation with ethylaluminum dichloride show a remarkable temperature dependence in toluene, but not in methylene chloride. This fact can be interpreted by an assumption of the formation of a ternary complex of methacrylonitrile, ethylaluminum dichloride, and aromatic donor molecules, mainly due to the dipole interaction between the nitrile group complexed with ethylaluminum dichloride and aromatic donor. The orientation of toluene molecules in the ternary complex of methacrylonitrile or methyl methacrylate is discussed.     

Alternating copolymerization of benzofuran and acrylic monomers in the presence of organoaluminum compounds

The copolymerization of benzofuran and acrylic monomers, such as acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, methyl acrylate, and methyl methacrylate, was investigated in the presence of aluminum compounds as complexing agents for acrylic monomers. Among the various kinds of aluminum compound, ethylaluminum sesquichloride is the most suitable for alternating copolymerization, whereas ethoxyaluminum compounds of low acidity allow the incorporation of excess acrylic monomer and dichloride of strong acidity is likely to induce cationic homopolymerization of benzofuran as a side reaction. The equimolar amount of sesquichloride with respect to acrylic monomer is necessary for alternating copolymerization. Azobisisobutylonitrile (AIBN) is an effective initiator but benzoyl peroxide is not. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of the copolymer indicates that the copolymer is essentially alternating, although some block sequences of acrylic monomer sometimes exist. As a mechanism the copolymerization via a ternary complex of acrylic monomer, aluminum compound, and benzofuran is considered. Free acrylic monomer participates in copolymerization when the amount or acidity of the complexing agent is insufficient. A quantitative relation between monomer and copolymer composition is derived from a scheme based on the copolymerization of the donor monomer-acceptor monomer complex with free acrylic monomer.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. IX. Charge-transfer spectrum of the system composed of metal halide,polar vinyl monomer,and electron-donating monomer

The 1:2 stannic chloride–methyl methacrylate complex, the 1:2 stannic chloride–acrylonitrile complex, the ethylaluminum dichloride–methyl methacrylate complex, and the ethylaluminum dichloride–acrylonitrile complex exhibit charge-transfer absorption bands in the wavelength region longer than 300 nm with electron-donating compounds such as mesitylene, styrene, toluene, and butadiene. The absorption spectrum of the mixture of either methyl methacrylate or acrylonitrile with the electron-donating compound is, however, a superpostion of the spectra of the components without any additional absorption. Methyl isobutylate, 3-butenyl methyl ketone, and propionitrile show no charge-transfer absorption bands with the electron-donating compound, even in the presence of a metal halide. Both the presence of the C-C double bond conjugating with the polar group and the coordination of the polar group to a metal halide are essential for an electron-accepting monomer to exhibit a charge-transfer absorption with the electron-donating compound. Continuous variation plots with the use of the charge-transfer band definitely show a 1:1 interaction between the methyl methacrylate coordinated to stannic chloride and styrene, resulting in the determination of the equilibrium constants for the charge-transfer complex formation in methylene chloride: 0.21 l./mole at 25°C and 0.67 l./mole at ?50°C. The charge-transfer absorption is attributed to a ternary molecular complex composed of a metal halide, a polar vinyl monomer, and an electron-donating monomer.     

Emulsion copolymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate

Chain transfer constants to monomer have been measured by an emulsion copolymerization technique at 44°C. The monomer transfer constant (ratio of transfer to propagation rate constants) is 1.9 × 10^?5 for styrene polymerization and 0.4 × 10^?5 for the methyl methacrylate reaction. Cross-transfer reactions are important in this system; the sum of the cross-transfer constants is 5.8 × 10^?5. Reactivity ratios measured in emulsion were r₁ (styrene) = 0.44, r₂ = 0.46. Those in bulk polymerizations were r₁ = 0.45, r₂ = 0.48. These sets of values are not significantly different. Monomer feed compcsition in the polymerizing particles is the same as in the monomer droplets in emulsion copolymerization, despite the higher water solubility of methyl methacrylate. The equilibrium monomer concentration in the particles in interval-2 emulsion polymerization was constant and independent of monomer feed composition for feeds containing 0.25–1.0 mole fraction styrene. Radical concentration is estimated to go through a minimum with increasing methyl methacrylate content in the feed. Rates of copolymerization can be calculated a priori when the concentrations of monomers in the polymer particles are known.     

Radical polymerization of metal-coordinated monomers with ligands of pyrrole-containing schiff bases

The copper complexes and the cobalt complex with the ligand of 3-(2-pyrrolylmethyl-enimino)propene-1 (PIP) or p-(2-pyrrolylmethylenimino)styrene (PIS) were synthesized and homopolymerizations and the copolymerization with styrene, acrylonitrile, methyl methacrylate and acrylic acid studied. In the polymerization of chelate monomers, inhibition of radical polymerization by the central metal ion was observed, but the chelate polymer could be obtained only if the initiator was present in higher concentrations in the feed. It is considered that the strength of inhibition depends on the electronic configuration of d-orbitals of the central metal ion. The initiation mechanism of the cupric chelate monomer may be reduction of the metal ion by the redox reaction with a primary radical via the intramolecular electron transfer through the π-conjugated system of the ligand prior to the propagation step. This mechanism was verified by studying the redox reaction of various copper complexes with DPPH. In the system of the copper complex containing PIS and acylic acid the alternating copolymer could be obtained at any mole fraction of monomer mixture in feed.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers VII. A kinetic study on the alternating copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with styrene using stannic chloride

The alternating copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with styrene in the presence of stannic chloride at ?50°C in toluene was kinetically investigated both under photoirradiation and with the tri-n-butylboron-benzoyl peroxide initiator. The concentrations of the binary and ternary molecular complexes in the copolymerization solution were estimated by use of the equilibrium constants. The rates are found to be proportional to the 1.5th and 1.0th orders of the concentration of the ternary molecular complex composed of stannic chloride, methyl methacrylate, and styrene, under photoirradiation and with initiator, respectively. The conversion increases proportionally with the polymerization time, while the degree of polymerization is constant irrespective of the time. The rates depend linearly upon the square root of the intensity of the incident light and upon the concentration of tri-n-butylboron, respectively. The alternating copolymerization is confirmed experimentally to precede the homopolymerization of the monomer charged in large excess both under photoirradiation and with initiator. The kinetic results indicate consistently that the alternating copolymerization proceeds through the homopolymerization of the ternary molecular complex in the steady state with a bimolecular termination. Both the conventional radical mechanism and the double complex mechanism are unsuitable for the present alternating copolymerization.     

Mechanism of Donor-Acceptor Alternating Copolymerization

The alternating copolymerization of butadiene and an acrylic compound in the presence of ethyl aluminum dichloride and vanadium oxychloride as complexing agents was studied kinetically for the comparison of two mechanisms, i. e., one involving an intermediate of a ternary complex of butadieneacrylic monomer-EtAIClz and the other without the complex formation. The rate of propagation was found to attain a maximum at a definite monomer composition, and this composition is not varied by changing the amount of EtAICl₂ but decreased with increasing the concentration of total monomer. This fact is explained only by the mechanism of the ternary complex intermediate. In relation to the mechanism, NMR study of the ternary complex, ESR study of the growing radical NMR study of the regularity of the copolymer, and the elementary reaction of the propagation are reviewed with discuss ion.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. XVIII. Sequence distribution in methyl acrylate–styrene copolymers prepared in the presence of zinc chloride

Methyl acrylate and styrene have been copolymerized in the presence of zinc chloride either by photoinitiation or spontaneously. The copolymerization mechanism is investigated by analyses of copolymers composition and monomer sequence distribution. The resulting copolymers are not always alternating, their composition being dependent especially on the monomer feed ratio. Appreciable deviation to higher methyl acrylate unit content from an equimolar composition occurs at monomer feed fractions of methyl acrylate over 0.7. The larger deviation is induced by higher temperature, by photoirradiation, and by greater dilution of the reaction mixture with toluene. The ¹³C-NMR spectrum of the alternating copolymer shows a sharp singlet at the carbonyl region, whereas the spectra of random copolymers prepared by benzoyl peroxide initiation at 60°C show a triplet splitting at the carbonyl carbon region, irrespective of copolymer composition. The relative intensities of the triplet peaks for the random copolymers are in good correspondence to the contents of triad sequences calculated by means of conventional radical copolymerization theory. These results clearly indicate that the carbonyl splitting is caused predominantly by variation of the monomer sequence and not by variation of the stereosequence. The monomer sequence distribution in the copolymers is thus directly and quantitatively measured from the split carbonyl resonance. Although the same triplet splitting appears in the spectra of methyl acrylate–rich copolymers prepared in the presence of zinc chloride at high feed ratios (>0.7) of methyl acrylate, the relative intensities of the split peaks do not fit the sequence distributions of random copolymers calculated by means of the Lewis–Mayo equation. The copolymerization yielding these peculiar sequences and the alternating sequence in the presence of zinc chloride is fully comprehended by a copolymerization mechanism proceeding between two active coordinated monomers, i.e., the ternary molecular complex composed of zinc chloride, methyl methacrylate, and styrene, and the binary molecular complex composed of zinc chloride and methyl methacrylate.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. X. Kinetic study of alternating copolymerization of methyl methacrylate and styrene with stannic chloride in dichloroethane

The alternating copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with styrene with the use of stannic chloride was kinetically examined at ?20°C in 1,2-dichloroethane both under photoirradiation and with radical initiator (2:1 tri-n-butylboron-benzoyl peroxide system). At conversions lower than 7%, the conversion increases linearly to the polymerization time, whereas the degree of polymerization is constant irrespective of the polymerization time. The alternating copolymerizations are 1.5 order and the 1.0 order reactions with respect to the ternary molecular complex composed of stannic chloride, methyl methacrylate, and styrene, under photoirradiation and with initiator, respectively. The linear dependences of the rates upon the 0.5 order of the intensity of the incident light and upon the 1.0 order of the concentration of tri-n-butylboron indicate a bimolecular termination. The rate normalized by the 1.5 order of the concentration of the coordinated methyl methacrylate and the rate normalized by the concentration of the coordinated methyl methacrylate are proportional to the 1.5 and 1.0 orders of the charged concentration of styrene, for the copolymerizations under photoirradiation and with initiator, respectively. The kinetic results in the 1,2-dichloroethane solution are quite consistent with those in the toluene solution. The alternating copolymerization mechanism, in which the ternary molecular complex predominantly homopolymerizes as a monomer unit, is confirmed.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. XIV. Systematic deviations from alternating regulation in copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with styrene in the presence of metal halides

Methyl methacrylate (MMA) and styrene (St) copolymerize in the presence of zinc chloride at 3°C under photoirradiation. The contents of methyl methacrylate in the copolymers obtained at a [ZnCl₂]/[MMA] molar ratio of 0.4 are systematically larger than 53 mole %, which is the limiting value at a small feed ratio of methyl methacrylate. The resulting copolymers are confirmed as the sole products and not the mixtures by thin layer chromatography. The effect of dilution of the monomer feed mixture with toluene on copolymer composition suggests that it depends chiefly on the feed concentration of styrene and hardly at all on monomer feed ratios. Copolymerizations are also conducted in the presence of stannic chloride at ?17°C under photoirradiation and in the presence of ethylaluminium sesquichloride at 0°C with spontaneous initiation. The contents of methyl methacrylate in both copolymers obtained at feed ratios lower than 60 mole % almost correspond to the 1:1 alternating copolymer and increase systematically with higher feed ratios. The systematic deviations of copolymer composition obtained in the presence of metal halides are reasonably interpreted by the participation of the binary molecular complex composed of metal halide and methyl methacrylate in the polymerization of the ternary molecular complex composed of metal halide, methyl methacrylate, and styrene.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. III. Copolymerization of acrylonitrile–zinc chloride,methacrylonitrile–zinc chloride or methyl methacrylate–zinc chloride complex with styrene

The 1:1 or 2:1 complex of acrylonitrile, methacrylonitrile, or methyl methacrylate with ZnCl₂ was copolymerized with styrene at the temperature of 0–30°C without any initiator. The structure of the copolymer from methyl methacrylate complex and styrene was examined by NMR spectroscopy. The complexes of acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile with ZnCl₂ gave a copolymer containing about 50 mole-% styrene units. The complexes of methyl methacrylate yielded an alternating copolymer when the feed molar ratio of methyl methacrylate to styrene was small, but with increasing feed molar ratio the resulting copolymer consisted of about 2 moles of methyl methacrylate per mole of styrene. The formation of a charge-transfer complex of styrene with a monomer coordinated to zinc atom was inferred from the ultraviolet spectra. The regulation of the copolymerization was considered to be effected by the charge-transfer complex. The copolymer resulting from the 2:1 methyl methacrylate–zinc chloride complex had no specific tacticity, whereas the copolymer from the 1:1 complex was richer in coisotacticity than in cosyndiotacticity. The change of the composition of the copolymer and its specific tacticity in the polymerization of the methyl methacrylate complex is related to the structure of the complex.     

Cellulose-Monomer Interaction and a Revised Mechanism for Graft Copolymerization

Graft copolymerization of electron acceptor acrylic monomers on cellulose involves cellulose-monomer complexation. Cellulose acts as a matrix promoting high localized concentrations of donor-acceptor complexes in which uncomplexed monomer, normally an electron acceptor, behaves as a donor relative to the complexed monomer which has been converted to a stronger acceptor. The cellulose-monomer complexation influences both homopolymerizability and grafting efficiency, e. g. acrylonitrile (AN) and methacrylonitrile (MAN) in the presence of a catalyst and methyl methacrylate (MMA) in the absence of a catalyst. The presence of water, cupric ion, aldehydes, and CCU influence the course of the uncatalyzed reaction. When a donor monomer is present, equimolar alternating rather than random, grafted and ungrafted copolymers are produced, e. g., styrene or butadiene with MMA, MAN, or AN, as a result of the formation of an ordered array of donor-acceptor complexes on the cellulose. The revised mechanism of polymerization involves the homopolymerization of the donor-acceptor complexes, irrespective of the nature of the initiator, and grafting results from termination of the propagating chains by coupling with radicals on the cellulose.     

Radical copolymerization of acrylic monomers. VI. Copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with methyl α-benzylacrylate

Free-radical copolymerization of methyl methacrylate and methyl α-benzylacrylate has been studied in benzene solutions at 40 and 60°C. A simple copolymerization model fits the composition data at both temperatures. However, considering that the ceiling temperature for the polymerization of methyl α-benzylacrylate in benzene solution (|M| = 5 mol/L) is 67°C and that the overall rate of copolymerization drastically decreases with respect to that of methyl methacrylate homopolymerization with an increase of the molar fraction of methyl α-benzylacrylate in the feed, the behavior of this system is analyzed from both simple and reversible copolymerization models.     

Polymerization of coordinated monomers. XVII. Alternating copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with styrene by boron compounds

By the use of various boron compounds methyl methacrylate and styrene were copolymerized under photoirradiations at ?20°C. The alternately regulating activities of the boron compounds in the copolymerizations were in the following order: boron trichloride > ethylboron dichloride > boron trifluoride > diethylboron chloride ? triethylboron (?0). Boron trichloride and ethylboron dichloride exhibited such high regulating activities that their presence in 1 mol% in the charged methyl methacrylate was sufficient to complete equimolar alternating copolymerization. The alternating copolymerization proceeded in the steady state. The copolymerization rates decreased in the following order: boron trichloride ? ethylboron dichloride > diethylboron chloride ? triethylboron (?0). The cotacticities of methyl methacrylate-centered triads in the resulting copolymers were identical to those prepared with boron trichloride, ethylboron dichloride, and diethylboron chloride. The mechanism of the alternating copolymerization is discussed.     

Donor-Acceptor Complexes in Copolymerization. XXVI. Effect of Solvent,Temperature, and Complexing Agent on the Polymerization of Comonomer Charge Transfer Complexes

The copolymerization of styrene with methyl methacrylate (S/MMA = 4/1) or acrylonitrile (S/AN = 1/1) in the presence of ethylaluminum sesquichloride (EASC) yields 1/1 copolymer in toluene or chlorobenzene. In chloroform the S-MMA-EASC polymerization yields 60/40 copolymer while the S-AN-EASC polymerization yields 1/1 copolymer. In the presence of EASC, styrene-α-chloroacrylonitrile yields 1/1 copolymer (DMF or DMSO), S-AN yields 1/1 copolymer (DMSO) or radical copolymer (DMF), S-MMA yields radical copolymer (DMF or DMSO), α-methylstyrene-AN yields radical copolymer (DMSO) or traces of copolymer (DMF), and α-MS-methacrylo-nitrile yields traces of copolymer (DMSO) or no copolymer (DMF). When zinc chloride is used as complexing agent in DMF or DMSO, none of the monomer pairs undergoes polymerization. However, radical catalyzed polymerization of isoprene-AN-ZnCl₂ in DMF yields 1/1 alternating copolymer. The copolymerization of S/MMA in the presence of EASC yields 1/1 alternating copolymer up to 100°C, while the copolymerization of S/AN deviates from 1/1 alternating copolymer above 50°C. The copolymerization of S/MMA deviates from 1/1 copolymer at MMA/EASC mole ratios above 20 while the copolymerization of S/AN deviates from 1/1 copolymer at MMA/EASC ratios above 50.     

Effect of ultraviolet irradiation on terpolymerization of sulfur dioxide with two unsaturated compounds

The terpolymerization of sulfur dioxide, butene-1 and acrylonitrile affords terpolymers containing equimolar amounts of sulfur dioxide and butene-1 with various acrylonitrile contents. Ultraviolet irradiation was found to accelerate the polymerization and decrease the acrylonitrile content in the polymer. This fact is interpreted by a mechanism through a copolymerization of sulfur dioxide–butene-1 complex and acrylonitrile, whereby the polymerizability of sulfur dioxide–butene-1 complexed monomer may be accelerated by ultraviolet light. In fact, a binary system of sulfur dioxide and butene-1 was found to be accelerated by ultraviolet irradiation, and it affords a maximum rate at a 1:1 composition of feed monomer. Ultraviolet light of 250–300 mμ wavelength is effective for the initiation and the propagation. This may be ascribed to the ultraviolet absorption of the sulfur dioxide–butene-1 complex. The temperature coefficient was measured in both dark and ultraviolet irradiation reactions. The ultraviolet irradiation enhances the reactivity of sulfur dioxide–butene-1 complexed monomer at low temperature. In the terpolymerization with sulfur dioxide, isoprene, and butadiene, the ratio of isoprene and butadiene in the terpolymer was not altered by ultraviolet irradiation because both monomers from complexes with sulfur dioxide, perhaps having the same temperature coefficient for the polymerization.     

Controlled radical polymerization of methacrylates of various structures in the presence of the AIBN-FeCl3-N,N-dimethylformamide catalytic system

The controlled radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate, 2-ethoxyethyl methacrylate, and tert-butyl methacrylate conducted via atom-transfer radical polymerization in the presence of the AIBN-FeCl₃· 6H₂O-N,N-dimethylformamide catalytic system is studied. For all the systems under study, the rate of reaction is first order with respect to the monomer concentration. The number-average molecular mass of the polymers linearly increases with conversion, and their polydispersity indexes are below 1.6. The rate of polymerization decreases in the following sequence: 2-ethoxyethyl methacrylate > methyl methacrylate > tert-butyl methacrylate. The presence of ω-terminal chlorine atoms in polymer macromolecules is confirmed by ¹H NMR spectroscopy and through the block copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with a poly(ethoxyethyl methacrylate)-based macroinitiator.     

乙烯基单体与含氮氧稳定自由基单体的原子转移自由基共聚合研究

通过苯乙烯或甲基丙烯酸甲酯与含氮氧稳定自由基的单体进行原子转移自由基共聚合 ,研究了共聚合反应的条件及动力学 ,成功地合成出侧链含TEMPO基团的氮氧稳定自由基聚合大分子引发剂 .大分子引发剂的结构通过核磁共振谱图进行确证 ,并对共聚合反应的历程进行了探讨     

General Method for Evaluation of Alternating Tendency in Copolymerization

A new method for deriving expressions for the mole fractions of alternating n-ads and the average lengths of the alternating sequences of n-component copolymers (n > 2) was developed based on the apparatus of finite Markov chains. These characteristics are considered as indexes of alternating tendency forn-component copolymerization. A specific property of n-component copolymerization (n > 3) compared with binary copolymerization is the fact that alternating n-ads might be constructed by two, three, or more types of monomeric units. In order to express this specific property of three and multi-component copolymers the term, alternating order, is introduced. The method developed in the paper permits the alternating indexes to be determined differentially in dependence of alternating order. Expressions for the average lengths and the compositions of all possible alternating sequences starting with a given monomer unit and ending with unit found only at that position, are derived as well. The alternating indexes for binary radical copolymerization of styrene and methyl methacrylate and for ternary radical copolymerization of styrene, methyl methacrylate, and acrylonitrile were determined.     

Block copolymerization of methyl methacrylate with poly(ethylene oxide) radicals formed by high-speed stirring

A block copolymer of methyl methacrylate with poly(ethylene oxide) was synthesized by initiation with poly(ethylene oxide) radicals formed by high-speed stirring. The effects of the concentration of the monomer, the concentration of the polymer, the degree of polymerization, the rotation speed, and the solvent on the rate of copolymerization were studied. It was found that the rate of copolymerization was proportional to the concentration of the monomer and to the square root of the rate of scission of the polymer chain. The block copolymerization of methyl methacrylate monomer and styrene monomer (1 : 1 mole ratio) with poly(ethylene oxide) radicals was also carried out by the same method and it was found that the block copolymerization was a radical one.